Designs for plates drawn by Batty Langley and etched by Thomas Langley.
Woodcut initials, woodcut factotum depicting Nativity (F2r), woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
Library's copy in late 20th century cloth case binding ; donated by Ars Artis.

viii, 24 p., clxxxiv [i.e. 186] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) ; 29 cm.

Illustrated, by upwards of four hundred grand designs, for [col. 1]peirs, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney pieces, [col. 2] tabernacle frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar pieces, monuments, [col. 3] fonts, obelisques, pedestals, for sundials, busto's, and stone tables, book cases, ciellings, and iron works. [end col.] Finely engraved on 186 large quarto plates; proportioned by aliquot parts: to which are prefix'd, the five orders of columns; according to Andrea Palladio, whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner, than has been yet 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. / By Batty Langley

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