Main entry:

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

Title & Author:

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, for [col. 1]peirs, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney pieces, [col. 2] tabernacle frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar pieces, monuments, [col. 3] fonts, obelisques, pedestals, for sundials, busto's, and stone tables, book cases, ciellings, and iron works. [end col.] Finely engraved on 186 large quarto plates ; proportioned by aliquot parts: 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 been yet 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 Batty Langley.

Publication:

London : Printed by J. Ilive, for Thomas Langley, in Meard's Court, Dean-Street, Soho, MDCCXL. [i.e. 1740]

Description:

viii, 24 pages, clxxxiv [i.e. 186] leaves of plates : illustrations (etchings) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Collation: 4° ; [A]² B-H² [$1 signed] ; 16 leaves.
Designs for plates drawn by Batty Langley and etched by Thomas Langley.
Library's copy in late 20th century cloth case binding ; donated by Ars Artis.
UkLNAL
Plate clxxxvi misnumbered clxxxiv.
Variant pagination: vii [i.e. viii] (OCLC 36326968) ; v-[viii] (ESTC t11861).
Woodcut initials, woodcut factotum depicting Nativity (F2r), woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
Plate no. 186 misnumbered 184.
Plates, dated 1738 or 1739 signed by Batty Langley and Thomas Langley.
A]1r: title page ; [A]1v: 'Advertisement. Designs for buildings, gardens, parks ... made by Mr. Langley ... ' & 'Advertisement. Land carefully measured ... timber and buildings measured, and dials made by Henry Maxted of Canterbury, and Isaac Terry of Nether Hardres ... ' ; [A]2r-v: 'Introduction.' signed & dated 'London, May 20. 1740.' ; B1r-2v: 'A list of the subscribers.' ; C1r-H2v: 'The art of designing and working the ornamental parts of buildings.'
British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 1742
ESTC, t11861

Subject:

Architecture Details Early works to 1800.
Architecture Orders Early works to 1800.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Early works to 1800.
Architecture Détails Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture Ordres Ouvrages avant 1800.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture Details
Architecture Orders
Decoration and ornament, Architectural

Form/genre:

quarto (book format)
Woodcut initials)
Woodcut printers' ornaments.
pattern books.
advertisements.
Etchings.
subscription lists.
Woodcut factotum initials.
Pattern books
Advertisements
Early works
Livres de modèles.
Messages publicitaires.
Listes d'abonnements.

Added entries:

Ilive, Jacob, 1705-1763, printer.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751, illustrator.
Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751, publisher, engraver.
Maxted, Henry.
Terry, Isaac, active 1740.
Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751
England London.

Art of designing and working the ornamental parts of buildings
Art of drawing, and working the ornamental parts of architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 2813
Call No.: W692; ID:87-B11633
Status: Available