The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer [microform] : Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working. : I. The five orders of columns entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modilions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumniations, porticoes, and arcades. Together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modilions. : II. Block and cantiliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, and domes. With a section of the dome of St. Paul's, London. : The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 100 copper plates. / By B. and T. Langley
- Author:
- Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
- Published:
- Charlestown [Mass.] : Printed by S. Etheridge, for Samuel Hill, engraver, no. 2, Cornhill, Boston, [1800]
- Edition:
- The first American edition.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 5-46 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 99 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm (16mo)
- Additional Creators:
- Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751 and Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804
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- Note:
- Advertised as "just published" in the Salem Gazette, March 7, 1800.
ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Other Forms:
- Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.
- Reproduction Note:
- Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37778).
- Reviewed/Cited In:
- Evans, C. American bibliography, 37778
Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 705
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2491
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