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, windowns, 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 ; proprortioned by Aliquot Pars ; with an appendix of fourteen plates of strusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c ; 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, &c. the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language : Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Image from page 28 of "Practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant, shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building ... rules of carpentry ... the proportion of the five orders ... with
Image from page 28 of "Practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant, shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building ... rules of carpentry ... the proportion of the five orders ... with
We think you’ll love these
