(ARCHITECTURE) Batty Thomas Langley The Builders Jewel or T

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(ARCHITECTURE.) Batty & Thomas Langley. The Builder's Jewel: or, The Youth's Instructor and Workman's Remembrancer. 99 (of 100) plates including frontispiece. 46 pages. Large 16mo (5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches), contemporary calf, backstrip chipped, front board detached; lacking plate numbered 98, moderate foxing and offsetting. Charlestown, MA, [1800]

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First American edition of a work first published in London in 1741. Intended as a pocket manual of basic architectural information for workmen and students. Describes the proper classical proportions and designs of columns, pedestals, moldings, and more. Evans 37778; Rink, Technical Americana, 2491.