A sure guide to builders : or, The principles and practice of architecture geometrically demonstrated and made easy for the use of workmen in general. ... The whole illustrated with great variety of designs ... By B. Langley.
Batty Langley (1696-1751)
Category
Books
Date
1729
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217143
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 179 p., [82] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 25 cm. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case Q. Shelf 3. Loosely inserted page marker slip, with possible eighteenth-century ink marking (p.149). Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gilt fillet and blind roll borders; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt lettered black spine label: Langley's Guide to builders. Rebacked.
Makers and roles
Batty Langley (1696-1751)