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 entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's, 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 modillions. II. Block and cantaliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brakets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, domes, scales, and stair-cases. Illustrated by upwards of 220 examples, engraved on 108 copper-plates. By B. and T. Langley.

Author/creator Langley, Batty
Other author Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751, author.
Format Electronic
EditionThe thirteenth edition, with a large supplement.
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Printed for R. Clark bookseller in the Parliament-House, 1774.
Description32 pages, 100 plates ; 4⁰.
Supplemental ContentFull text online
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General noteReproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.
References English Short Title Catalog, T167214.
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