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| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580 | 10 |
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 9 |
| Langley, Batty (1696-1751) | 4 |
| Bree, Thomas | 2 |
| Pain, George Richard (1793-1838) | 2 |
| Price, Francis (1753) | 2 |
| Bernard Quaritch, London | 1 |
| Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753 | 1 |
| Centre Canadien D'Architecture | 1 |
| Cork, Richard Boyle | 1 |
The Palladian revival : Lord Burlington, his villa and garden at Chiswick
Harris, John (1931-); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Centre canadien d'architecture; Heinz Architectural Center; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
[1994]
Catalog of an exhibition at the Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 19 July-25 September 1994; the Heinz Architectural Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsb...
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
Langley, Batty (1696-1751); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1790?]
With an index. Josiah Taylor (son of Isaac) was trading at this address: 1781-1799 (Maxted).
Classical architecture in Britain : the heroic age
Worsley, Giles; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
1995
Facsimiles on endpapers.
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
Langley, Batty (1696-1751); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Bree, Thomas
[1738]
Vol.2 consists of 77 numbered plates, dated 1738. Price from imprint: price 10 s. 6 d. the two Volumes.
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
Langley, Batty (1696-1751); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Bree, Thomas
[1738]
Vol.2 consists of 77 numbered plates, dated 1738. Price from imprint: price 10 s. 6 d. the two Volumes.
The British carpenter, or, A treatise on carpentry : containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, in a more useful and extensive method, than has been made publick
Price, Francis (1753); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Pain, George Richard (1793-1838)
1735
Two plates fold out from pp. 5 and 41 (fourth group). "A supplement to The British carpenter : containing Palladio's orders of architecture, with the ornaments of doors and windows..." (p. [4], 16 a...
The British carpenter, or, A treatise on carpentry : containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art, in a more useful and extensive method, than has been made publick
Price, Francis (1753); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Pain, George Richard (1793-1838)
1735
Two plates fold out from pp. 5 and 41 (fourth group). "A supplement to The British carpenter : containing Palladio's orders of architecture, with the ornaments of doors and windows..." (p. [4], 16 a...
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
Langley, Batty (1696-1751); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Vidler, F W; Bernard Quaritch, London
1745
B.L. = Batty Langley. Designed by B Langley 1738-1739 and engraved by his brother, Thomas Langley.
Of false taste : An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington. Occasion'd by his publishing Palladio's designs of the baths, arches, theatres, &c., of ancient Rome
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Cork, Richard Boyle Earl of, 1695-1753
1731 [i.e. 1732]
This edition includes for the first time Pope's prefatory letter to Lord Burlington. Page 6, line 13 reads: "Oft have you..." There are 12 books advertised on the recto of p. [15]. Signatures: [A]...