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 with upwards of Four Hundred grand Designs, neatly engraved on One Hundred and Eighty-six Copper Plates [.] Proportioned by Aliquot Parts. With an Appendix of Fourteen Plates of Trusses 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 proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner than has yet been done. The Whole interspersed with sure Rules for working all the Varieties of Raking Mambers in Pediments. Modillions, &c. The like, for the immediate Use of Work

Editorial: Printed for and Sold by S. Harding, London, 1750

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Testo inglese. Cm.27,2x21,6. Pg.(4), 22 di testo, cui seguono 186 incisioni + 14 aggiunte in Appendice, tutte realizzate dall'autore e incise dal fratello Thomas. Legatura allentata in mz.pelle, con fisiologiche spellature. Tassello con titoli in oro al dorso a sei nervature. La tavola n°147 è rilegata a mò di antiporta. Ex libris Lauder of Fountainball Baronet. Terza edizione, dopo quelle del 1740 e del 1745, con ricchissimo apparato iconografico, di un'opera dell'architetto e paesaggista Batty Langley (Twickenham, 1696 ? 1751). Ereditata dal padre la professione di giardiniere, si trasformò in vero e proprio progettatore di giardini, riscuotendo buon successo fra l'aristocrazia britannica e pubblicando svariati saggi sull'argomento. Ascritto alla massoneria, si trasferì a Londra nel 1729, ivi dedicandosi più specificamente all'attività di architetto, continuando una prolifica produzione libraria che riscosse grande attenzione oltreoceano. "His book, with engravings by his brother Thomas, attempted to improve Gothic forms by giving them classical proportions and to create a scheme of architectural orders for Gothic architecture" (da Wikipedia). > Reiff, "Houses from Books: Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in .", 28, "Langley's "Treasure of Designs . was certainly widely used in America. The front door of Mount Vernon, in Virginia, during the remodeling of 1758-1759, was based on plate 33 (right doorway). Was popular in the north, too. it was the source for the front door of Vassall - Longfellow House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of 1749". Harris, 451. Colvin, 354/355. 1800 gr.…

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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 with upwards of Four Hundred grand Designs, neatly engraved on One Hundred and Eighty-six Copper Plates [.] Proportioned by Aliquot Parts. With an Appendix of Fourteen Plates of Trusses 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 proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner than has yet been done. The Whole interspersed with sure Rules for working all the Varieties of Raking Mambers in Pediments. Modillions, &c. The like, for the immediate Use of Work
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LANGLEY Batty.
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Printed for and Sold by S. Harding, London
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