The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working. I. The five orders of columns ... II. Block and cantaliver cornices ... : the whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 100 copper plates / by B. and T. Langley.

Accession number

PML 82275

Creator

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Published

Charlestown [Mass.] : Printed by S. Etheridge ; [Boston] : For Samuel Hill, engraver, No. 2, Cornhill, Boston, [1800].

Notes

Introduction is signed: Tho. Langley; Thomas Langley was joint author (cf. Evans) and engraver (cf. DNB, Batty Langley, q.v.).
Dated from newspaper advertisements; cf. Evans.
Includes frontispiece and plates numbered 1-99.
PML copy: plates 95 and 96 wanting; boards detached.

Description

iv, 5-46 p., [100] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) ; 15 cm.

Binding

Contemporary brown calf with red gilt lettering-piece.

Classification

Book

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Printed Books