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Author additional ss Langley, Batty, 1696–1751, ill.

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1. The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer / by B. and T. Langley.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1751
Physical Description:: 34, [2] p., [99] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The builder's compleat assistant, or, a Library of arts and sciences absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general ... : the whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates / by B. Langley.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1738
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. 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 on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, oblisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings [sic], and iron works : proportioned by aliquot parts : with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. : to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, 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, modillions, &c. : the like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language / by B. L.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1756
Physical Description:: 24 p., CLXXXVI, 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A design for the bridge at New Palace Yard, Westminster ... : composed of nine arches, independent of each other, whose nature is such, that the greatest weight possibly to be impressed cannot break them down ... / by B. Langley.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: 30 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The young builder's rudiments, or, The principles of geometry, mechanicks, mensuration and perspective, geometrically demonstrated : together with the five orders of columns in architecture, according to the proportions of the celebrated Palladio : calculated for the use of workmen, gentlemen and others, who delight in designing, drawing, painting, engraving, and gardening, &c. / by B. Langley ; adorn'd with about thirty large copper plates, curiously engrav'd by J. Vandergucht and B. Cole.

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Creator:: Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:: 1730
Physical Description:: [8], 130, [2] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 25 cm. (4o.)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts