Item description for City + Country Builder's + Workman's Treasury of Designs (1756) Batty Langley

Modern Book. Soft cover directly reprinted from the original antique edition.

Author/Creator:
Langley, Batty; 1696 to 1751, By B. L. ; London, printed for S. Harding, and sold by B. Dod in Ave Maria Lane and J. Marks on the Pavement in St. Martin;s Lane, 1756.

Title:
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 400 Grand Designs, neatly engraved on One Hundred and eighty six copper plates, for Piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chimney pieces, tabernacle frames, pavements, frets, gulochis, pulpits, types, alter pieces, monuments, fonts, obelisques, pedestals for, sun dials, busts and stone tables, book cases, ceilings and iron works, proportioned by Aliquot Parts, with an appendix of forteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters and a variety of roofs, etc, to which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio, whose members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy manner than has yet been done, the Whole interspersed sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, medallions, etc, the like for the immediate use of workmen, never published before in any language.
-- Modern reprint undated of the original.

Details about this publication:

-- 225 pages, in very good condition. Flex covers, cloth binding.
--   Reprint by Academic Library Services, not dated, circa 1999

Subject:   British architecture of the mid-18th century. Designs of every sort of regal manor homes, mansions, grand estates, chateau, nobility residences and buildings. Interior finishes and exterior elements. Church and public designs. Please see photos.

About the Author: Batty Langley (baptised 14 September 1696 – 3 March 1751) was an English garden designer, and prolific writer who produced a number of engraved designs for "Gothick" structures, summerhouses and garden seats in the years before the mid-18th century.

An eccentric landscape designer, he gave four of his sons the names Hiram, Euclid, Vitruvius and Archimedes. He published extensively, and attempted to "improve" Gothic forms by giving them classical proportions.

Langley moved from Twickenham to London in 1729, and shifted again from landscape gardening to architecture. Working near Exeter Change in the Strand, he published A Sure Guide to Builders in 1729. He moved to Westminster in the 1730s, where he started to teach drawing, geometry, architecture, and garden design, and continued to teach when he moved to Soho in 1738. He also made and sold stone garden ornaments.

Despite his literary aspirations, and advertisements in architectural journals, he secured few commissions, submitting an unsolicited proposal for the competition to design a new Mansion House in 1735 and a design for a new Westminster Bridge in 1736-7. He inclined strongly towards a home-grown English architectural form, publishing articles in the Grub Street Journal under the pseudonym "Hiram" from July 1734 to March 1735, praising Gothic architecture (or as he termed it "native Saxon") and rejecting the "imported" Palladian architecture favoured by Lord Burlington and his circle.

He published a wide range of architectural books, from a huge folio on Ancient Masonry in parts from 1733 to 1736 with over 450 plates, through The Builder's Complete Assistant of 1738 (also known as The Builder's Complete Chest-Book) and The Builder's Jewel of 1741, to the tiny The Workman's Golden Rule in 1750, in vicesimo-quarto.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Firmly readable, desirable and collectible. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, flex covers, with cloth spine, a sturdy book. Stored flat. Overall wonderful reprint book. It would make a great gift for the fan in your life, even if that's you.

Clean and Unmarked Text. Very Good condition. Text is in English. Direct reprint from the original.

-- Defects: Only minor edge wear from being on the shelf or moved around the bookshop

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Location: from inventory, Langley, City Builders 5031048

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