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.

Main entry:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Title & Author:

Edition:

The 1st American ed.

Publication:

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

Description:

46 pages, [100] leaves of plates : illustrations (etchings) ; 15 cm

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.
Evans 37778

Subject:

Architecture Details.
Architecture Orders.
Architecture Détails.
Architecture Ordres.

Added entries:

Etheridge, Samuel, printer.
Hill, Samuel, printer.
Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751.
United States Massachusetts Boston.
United States Massachusetts Charlestown.

Youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer
Builder's jewel

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Location: Library cage y 81034
Call No.: 1059
Status: Available

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