The builder's vade-mecum, or, A complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where ... the etymology, characters, proportions ... of the members of their several columns and entablatures are ... explain'd, with respect to the practice of Palladio. Together with the manner of drawing the geometrical elevation of the five orders of columns ... Illustrated on seven copper-plates ... / by B. Langley ...

Main entry:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Title & Author:

Publication:

[Dublin] : London printed, Dublin re-printed by and for S. Fuller, 1735.

Description:

[6], vi, 139, [9] p., [7] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.

Notes:
Includes index.
ESTC, T119664

Exhibitions:

Exhibited: "125 kilos de livres = 125 kilos of books", Centre canadien d'architecture, Mar. 23-Apr. 30, 2006.

Subject:

Architecture Orders.
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ordres.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 2250
Call No.: W8089
Status: Available

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