Entrée principale:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Titre et auteur:

Ancient architecture, restored and improved, by a great variety of grand and usefull designs, entirely new in the Gothick mode for the ornamenting of buildings and gardens exceeding every thing thats extant : Exquisitely engraved on LXIV large quarto copper plates and printed on superfine royal paper by Batty and Thomas Langley of Meards Court Dean Street Soho.

Publication:

[1742]

Description:

3 preliminary leaves, [4], plates A, B I-LXII : folio

Notes:
Initials.
This book was the item supplied by Avery Library as no. 43. A note in the Yale Library catalog indicates that the title given by Park, "Gothic architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions," was actually a reissue, with different title page, of plates in this volume, "Ancient Architecture, Restored and Improved."
Title-page continues: N.B. The editors being at a great expense to compleat the first part, containing thirty two plates; to enable the compleating of the last part, encouragers are humbly desired to pat 7 7 on receiving this first part, and 7 7 more on receiving the last part, which will contain thirty two plates more with the title page & c that will peremtorily be delivered in June 1742. Tho. Langley &c.
Microfilm. New Haven, Conn., Research Publications, 1972. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (American architectural books ; no. A43).

Sujet:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture, Gothic.
Decoration and ornament, Gothic.
Architecture gothique.
Décoration et ornement gothiques.
Architecture.

Classification/genre:

Early works.

Vedettes secondaires:

American architectural books.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque study room microform 47256
Cote: ID87B7159s120 MFM; ID:89-B6473
Statut: Disponible