The builder's director, [electronic resource] : or bench-mate: being a pocket treasury of the Grecia...
The builder's director, [electronic resource] : or bench-mate: being a pocket treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples, Improved from the best Authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches, Imposts, Key-Stones, Trusses, Moldings of Raking Pediments, Frontispieces. Portico's, Arcades, Colonades, Chimney-Pieces, Fretts, Guilochi's, Groins, Weatherings, Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c. proportioned By Minutes and by Equal Parts, The like never before Published. Engraved on 184 Copper Plates. Wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous Measures. Written for the Use of Gentlemen delighting in True Architecture; and for Masters and Workmen to Draw from and Work after. By Batty Langley, architect.
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London : printed for and sold by H.Piers opposite to Dean-Street, in High-Holborn, 1747.
Date
1747.
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English
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[2],xxivp.,184plates ; 8°.
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Publisher
London : printed for and sold by H.Piers opposite to Dean-Street, in High-Holborn, 1747.
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England
Date Published
1747.
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Available for use in the Library. Available from home to registered NSW residents.
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The builder's director, [electronic resource] : or bench-mate: being a pocket treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, Made easy to the meanest Capacity by near 500 Examples, Improved from the best Authors, Ancient and Modern, Of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts, Capitals, Columns, Architraves, Freezes, Brackets, Cornices, Arches,...
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Reproduction of original from British Library.
With an initial leaf of advertisements.
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ESTC T11860.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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74VvEaZjRwJX
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