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Batty Langley (1696-1751)

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Name: Batty Langley

Date of birth: 1696

Date of death: 1751

Source of information: Special Collections

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All Souls Science 5 LAN: Pomona: or the Fruit Garden illustrated. Containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. Calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects. Wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated. With directions... Likewise several practical observations on the imbibing power and perspirations of fruit trees; the several effects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits. To which is added a curious account of the most valuable Cyder Fruits of Devonshire

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Architecture B-0.1/LAN: 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... observations on the several designs published to this time, proving the abbutments of their arches to be infirm, and the possibility of their falling, by means of which the whole will be in danger

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Architecture B-0.1/LAN: A reply to Mr. John James's review of the several pamphlets and schemes, that have been offer'd to the publick for the building of a bridge at Westminster... [etc.]

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Bedford Collection A054: The builders compleat assistant, or a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. Vii. Mechanick Powers. Viii. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Portico's, &c. Proportioned By Modules and Minutes, According to Andrea Palladio. And by Equal Parts. Likewise, great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, Obelisques, Vases, Pedestals for Busto's, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axis in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. Wherein The Properties, and Pressure of the Air, on Water, &c. is explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates. By B. Langley

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Bedford Collection A055: The builders compleat assistant, or a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal in whole Numbers and Fractions. II. Geometry, Lineal, Superficial and Solid. III. Architecture, Universal. IV. Mensuration. V. Plain Trigonometry. VI. Surveying of Land, &c. Vii. Mechanick Powers. Viii. Hydrostaticks. Illustrated by above Thirteen Hundred Examples of Lines, Superficies, Solids, Mouldings, Pedestals, Columns, Pilasters, Entablatures, Pediments, Imposts, Block Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Frontispieces, Arcades, Portico's, &c. Proportioned By Modules and Minutes, According to Andrea Palladio. And by Equal Parts. Likewise, great Varieties of Trussed Roofs, Timber Bridges, Centerings, Arches, Groins, Twisted Rails, Compartments, Obelisques, Vases, Pedestals for Busto's, Sun-Dials, Fonts, &c. and Methods for raising heavy Bodies by the Force of Levers, Pulleys, Axis in Peritrochio, Screws, and Wedges; as also Water, by the common Pump, Crane, &c. Wherein The Properties, and Pressure of the Air, on Water, &c. is explained. The whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates. By B. Langley

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Bedford Collection A059: A sure guide to builders: or, the principles and practice of architecture geometrically demonstrated, and made easy, for the use of workmen in general.... By B. Langley

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Bedford Collection A177: 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, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sun-Dials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book-Cases, Cielings, 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 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 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. By B.L

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Bedford Collection A593: Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions. In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples, and pavillions &c. With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained. By B. & T. Langley. To which is added an historical dissertation on Gothic architecture

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Bedford Collection G037: 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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Bedford Collection K130: A garden alphabet

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Large Architecture B-0.1 LAN: Ancient architecture : restored, and improved, by a great variety of grand and usefull designs, entirely new in the Gothick mode for the ornamenting of buildings and gardens exceeding every thing thats extant, exquisitely engraved on LXIV large quarto copper-plates and printed on superfine royal paper

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Large Cookery A LAN: Pomona: or the Fruit Garden illustrated. Containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. Calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects. Wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated. With directions... Likewise several practical observations on the imbibing power and perspirations of fruit trees; the several effects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits. To which is added a curious account of the most valuable Cyder Fruits of Devonshire