The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: . or the art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, ... With an appendix of fourteen plates ... By B. L.
Batty Langley (1696-1751)
Category
Books
Date
1750
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3073974
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 22 p., CLXXXVI, 14 plates . ill.. . 4to.. Provenance: manuscript inscription: "RW 5/"; Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf binding; double gilt fillet border; five raised bands; spine gilt ruled and spine label gilt lettered: "Langley's Designs".
Makers and roles
Batty Langley (1696-1751)