The builder's jewel
Subtitle: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. Explaining short and easy rules, made familier 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 fouteen 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 cantaliver 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: By B. and T. Langley
Edition: A new edition.
Publisher: Printed for T. Longman, B. Law, H. Baldwin, G. G. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, and I. and J. Taylor
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46