Langley (Batty). The Builder's Bench-Mate: or Inestimable Pocket Companion, Making Easy to the meanest Capacity, the Grecian, Roman, & Gothick Orders of Architecture, By near Five Hundred Examples taken from the Ancients ... wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, Free from the erroneous Measures publish'd in the Editions of Leoni, Campbell, Hoppus, Ware, &c., 1st edition, for Archimedes Langley, 1747, 184 copper engravings on 92 leaves, lightly toned, second half of page block with ink stain to top edge (penetrating slightly into blank margins of some plates), endpapers browned, contemporary calf, rubbed and with some surface wear, 8vo (Qty: 1) ESTC T114293. A reissue of The Builder’s Director, 1747, with a new title-page, but still a rare book, although later editions have turned up occasionally.
Langley (Batty). The Builder's Bench-Mate: or Inestimable Pocket Companion, Making Easy to the meanest Capacity, the Grecian, Roman, & Gothick Orders of Architecture, By near Five Hundred Examples taken from the Ancients ... wherein The Orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, Free from the erroneous Measures publish'd in the Editions of Leoni, Campbell, Hoppus, Ware, &c., 1st edition, for Archimedes Langley, 1747, 184 copper engravings on 92 leaves, lightly toned, second half of page block with ink stain to top edge (penetrating slightly into blank margins of some plates), endpapers browned, contemporary calf, rubbed and with some surface wear, 8vo (Qty: 1) ESTC T114293. A reissue of The Builder’s Director, 1747, with a new title-page, but still a rare book, although later editions have turned up occasionally.
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