The builder's director, or Bench-mate: Being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, made easy to the meanest capacity by near 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient and modern, of pedestals, bases, shafts, capitals, columns, architraves, frizes, brackets, cornices, arches, imposts, key-stones, trussees, moldings of raking pediments, frontispieces, portico's, arcades, colonades, chimney-pieces, fretts, guilcohi's, groins, weatherings, moldings for tabernacles, frames, &c. proportioned by minutes and by equal parts. Engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures. Written for the use of gentlemen delighting in true architecture; and for master and workmen to draw from work after. By Batty Langley, architect
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Type of record: Book
Title: The builder's director, or Bench-mate: Being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture, made easy to the meanest capacity by near 500 examples, improved from the best authors, ancient and modern, of pedestals, bases, shafts, capitals, columns, architraves, frizes, brackets, cornices, arches, imposts, key-stones, trussees, moldings of raking pediments, frontispieces, portico's, arcades, colonades, chimney-pieces, fretts, guilcohi's, groins, weatherings, moldings for tabernacles, frames, &c. proportioned by minutes and by equal parts. Engraved on 184 copper plates. Wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures. Written for the use of gentlemen delighting in true architecture; and for master and workmen to draw from work after. By Batty Langley, architect
Classmark: Bedford Collection G037
Creator(s): Langley, Batty (1696-1751)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Publisher: Printed and sold by I. Taylor, No 56, nearly opposite Turnstile,...; and by all booksellers in town and country
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1790?]
Language: English
Size and medium: xxiv pages,184 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/732512
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019962997605181
Description
With an index.
Josiah Taylor (son of Isaac) was trading at this address: 1781-1799 (Maxted).
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G037: contemporary calf, later red spine label, gold tooled [spine repaired].
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G037: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: AO/17.
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