Batty Langley

British garden designer

Born	1696
Died	1751

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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 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 Batty Langley First published in 1740 — 14 editions
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The builder's jewel, 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 Batty Langley First published in 1758 — 13 editions
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The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer

by Batty Langley First published in 1741 — 11 editions

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The builder's director: or bench-mate: being a pocket treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture ...

by Batty Langley First published in 1747 — 7 editions

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The builder's jewel: 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 Batty Langley First published in 1763 — 7 editions

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The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture

by Batty Langley First published in 1740 — 7 editions

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Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions.: In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... With plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained.

by Batty Langley First published in 1742 — 7 editions
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Gothic architecture: improved by rules and proportions, in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows ... : with plans, elevations and profiles, geometrically explained

by Batty Langley First published in 1742 — 6 editions
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The builder's chest-book: or, a complete key to the five orders in architecture. ... By B. Langley. The second edition, much improv'd. To which is added, Geometrical rules made easy for the use of mechanicks concern'd in buildings : ... With some remarks on the intended bridge at Westminster. ... By Isaac Gadsdon.

by Batty Langley First published in 1727 — 6 editions

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Pomona: or, The fruit-garden illustrated.: Containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. Calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects. Wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated ... Likewise several practical observations on the imbibing power and perspirations of fruit-trees; the several effects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits. To which is added, a curious account of the most valuable cyderfruits of Devonshire. The whole illustrated with above three hundred drawings of the several fruits, curiously engraven on seventy-nine large folio plates.

by Batty Langley First published in 1728 — 6 editions
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The London prices of bricklayers materials and works: both of new buildings and repairs, justly ascertained, and the common exactions and abuses therein detected, interspersed with rules for estimating, performing and measuring all kinds of ... brick-works ... : also illustrated with a great variety of designs for plain and rusticated piers, for gates, piazzas, &c., in thirty-two curious copper plates ...

by Batty Langley First published in 1748 — 5 editions
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The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer: explaining short and easy rules made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... to this edition is added a dictionary of terms used in architecture

by Batty Langley First published in 1741 — 5 editions

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The builder's director or bench mate.

by Batty Langley First published in 1970 — 4 editions

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The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture: wherein their pedestals, columns, entablatures ... are taken from the best examples of the ancients ...

by Batty Langley First published in 1750 — 3 editions

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New principles of gardening

by Batty Langley First published in 1727 — 3 editions

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The builder's compleat assistant, or, A library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general ...: proportioned by modules and minutes, according to Andrea Palladio ...

by Batty Langley First published in 1738 — 3 editions

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Ancient masonry both in the theory and practice: demonstrating the useful rules of arithmetick, geometry and architecture in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations ... together with their most valuable designs ...

by Batty Langley First published in 1736 — 2 editions

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The builders compleat assistant: or, a library of arts and sciences, absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general. ... By B. Langley.

by Batty Langley First published in 1738 — 2 editions

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Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building: surveying, gardening, and mensuration ... and set to view in four parts ... The whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands.

by Batty Langley First published in 1726 — 2 editions

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Examples from ancient masonry in the proportions and orders of the most eminent masters of all nations: together with their most valuable designs for temples, triumphal arches, porticos, colonades, piazzas, arcades, frontispieces, etc. London, 10 Sept. 1736

by Batty Langley 2 editions

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British garden designer

Born	1696
Died	1751

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OLID: OL1214446A
ISNI: 0000000108642639
Library of Congress Names: n50066839
VIAF: 4919216
Wikidata: Q2411316
Inventaire.io: wd:Q2411316

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