The builder's vade-mecum : Or, A complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture. Where, by way of dialogue in nine lectures, the etymology, characters, proportions, profiles, ornaments, measures and dispositions of the members of their several columns and entablatures are distinctly consider'd and explain'd, with respect to the practice of palladio. Together with the manner of drawing the geometrical elevation of the five orders of columns in architecture and to measure the several parts of buildings in general: illustrated on seven coper-plates, being a necessary companion for all gentlemen's as well as masons, carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, &c. and all others concern'd in the several parts of buildings in general. By B. Langley, of Twickenham.

Author/creator Langley, Batty
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Dublin] : London printed: and, Dublin re-printed by and for S. Fuller, at the Globe and Scales in Meath-Street, 1729.
Description6 unnumbered pages, vi, 136, 136-138, 9 unnumbered pages, plates ; 8⁰.
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General notePp. 137-139 misnumbered 136-138.
General noteWith an index.
General noteReproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".
References English Short Title Catalog, T167238.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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