The builder's jewel
Subtitle: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer.Explaining short and easy rules. Made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ....
By: By B. and T. Langley
Contributors: Langley, T. (Thomas), 1702-1751; Mitchell, Herbert; Herbert Mitchell Bequest (Avery Library)
Edition: The twelfth edition.
Publisher: Printed for James. Williams in. Skinner Row
Published: 1768
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Architecture; Early works to 1800; Details; Orders
Other titles: Youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer
Notes: Final leaf (p. [35-36]) blank.

Avery Classics copy: Plate 99 wanting.

Avery Classics copy:  Gift of Herbert Mitchell.

English short title catalogue, T153230

Also available electronically and in microform.

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell
Table of contents: title: From t.p. 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, Modillions, &c. Also to proportion Their Doors, Windows, Intercolumnations, Portico's, 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 Modillions. 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 8 Section of the Dome of St. Paul's, London