The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs Or, the Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture. Illustrated by Upwards of Four Hundred Grand Designs, Neatly Engraved One Hundred and Eighty-Fix Copper Plates, for P

Hardcover reprint of the original 1741 edition; hardbound in brown cloth with gold stamped lettering, 8vo - 8.5x11. This item is printed on demand. All of the pages are printed in full color as exact images of the original pages. This collector quality facsimile is crafted to hold its own in a library of first editions.

Book Information: Langley, Batty. The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs Or, the Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture. Illustrated by Upwards of Four Hundred Grand Designs, Neatly Engraved One Hundred and Eighty-Fix Copper Plates, for Piers, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney Pieces, Tabernacle Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochi's, Pulpits, Types, Altar Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, For Sun-Dials, Busto's and Stone Tables, Book-Cafes, Cielings and Iron Works; Proportioned by Aliquot Pars; With an Appendix of Fourteen Plates of Strusses for Girders and Beams, Different Sorts of Rafters, and a Variety of Roofs, Etc.; to Which are Prefix'D the Five Orders of Columns, According to Andrea Palladio; Whose Members are Apportioned by Aliquot Pars, in a More Easy Manner, than Has Yet Been Done; the Whole Interspersed With Sure Rules for Working All the Varieties of Raking Members in Pediments, Modilions, Etc. the Like, for the Immediate Use of Workmen, Never Published Before in Any Language. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2014.

Original Publishing: Langley, Batty. The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs Or, the Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture. Illustrated by Upwards of Four Hundred Grand Designs, Neatly Engraved One Hundred and Eighty-Fix Copper Plates, for Piers, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney Pieces, Tabernacle Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochi's, Pulpits, Types, Altar Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, For Sun-Dials, Busto's and S