The builder's chest-book; . or a complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where by way of dialogue in nine lectures the etymology, ... are distinctly consider'd and explain'd with respect to the practice of Palladio. Together with the manner of drawing the geometrical elevation ... illustrated on seven copper-plates: being a necessary companion for gentlemen, ... and all others concern'd in the several parts of building in general.
Batty Langley (1696-1751)
Category
Books
Date
1727
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005622
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],vi,139,[9]p.,[7] folded plates ; tables ; 8vo. Running number: 1332. Signatures: A4 a2 B-S4 T2 U4. Leaf B3 torn. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf over boards with double gilt fillet border. Blind roll pattern on board edges. Four raised bands; spine untooled and unlettered. Sewn on four supports; two laced in. Endbands with front beads. Pastedown and conjugate endleaf at both ends. Brown sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Batty Langley (1696-1751)