The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working. : I. The five orders of columns entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modilions, &c. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumniations, porticoes, and arcades. Together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modilions. : II. Block and cantiliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, and domes. With a section of the dome of St. Paul's, London. : The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 100 copper plates. / By B. and T. Langley.
| Author/creator | Langley, Batty |
| Other author | Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751. |
| Other author | Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804, engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The first American edition. |
| Publication Info | Charlestown [Mass.] : Printed by S. Etheridge, for Samuel Hill, engraver, no. 2, Cornhill, Boston, [1800] |
| Description | iv, 5-46 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 99 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm (16mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37778. ^A478749 |
| General note | Advertised as "just published" in the Salem Gazette, March 7, 1800. |
| References | Evans 37778 |
| References | Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 705 |
| References | Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2491 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37778). |
| Genre/form | Textbooks. |
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