The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs
Subtitle: or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved one hundred and eighty-fix Copper plates, for piers, gates, doors, windowns, 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-cafes, cielings and iron works ; proprortioned by Aliquot Pars ; with an appendix of fourteen plates of strusses 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 apportioned by Aliquot Pars, 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: By B.L., surveyor
Publisher: Printed for and sold by S. Harding on the Pavement in St. Martin's Lane
Published: 1741
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Decoration and ornament, Architectural.; Architecture -- Details.; Architecture -- Orders.
Other titles: Treasury of designs; Builders and workman's treasury of designs; Art of drawing and working the ornamental partsof architecture
Notes: Signatures: [B] [superscript 2] C-G [superscript 2] H, 220 +14 plates.

Raised bands on spine and title typed in gold lettering, and three quarters leather binding.

First published 1740, without the last 14 plates--Cf. Dictionary of National Biography.