[Rarebooks] FS: "The Builder's Jewel" for young architectural students. London: 1768

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(ARCHITECTURE) Langley, Batty and Thomas Langley. THE BUILDER’S JEWEL:
Or, The Youth’s Instructor and Workman’s Remembrancer.... Short and
Easy Rules...for Drawing and Working... The Whole Illustrated by
Upwards of 200 Examples, Engraved on 100 Copper-Plates. The Eleventh
Edition.... London: C. and R. Ware et al. 1768. 12mo. 36pp. of
preliminary text + a copper engraved frontis. and 99 copper engraved
plates, complete.  Contemporary calf, rather worn at fore-edge, nicely
rebacked.
Title and frontis. lightly soiled. Small bookplate on front
pastedown.	$750.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very popular 18th century handbook on architecture for the young
student.

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