[Rarebooks] FS: "The Builder's Director..." w/184 copper engraved plates. London: 1751

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(ARCHITECTURE) Langley, Batty. THE BUILDER'S DIRECTOR, OR BENCH-MATE:
Being a Pocket-Treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic Orders of
Architecture, Made Easy to the Meanest Capacity by Near 500 Examples...
of Pedestals, Bases, Shafts... Moldings for Tabernacles, Frames, &c.
Proportioned by Minutes and by Equal Parts... Engraved on 184 Copper
Plates... London: Printed for and Sold by H. Piers. 1751. 12mo. xxiv
pp. Plus 184 copper engraved plates (on 92 leaves). 19th c. sheep,
edges & spine a bit rubbed, later red calf labels. Inner hinges
reinforced with linen binder's tape. Ownership signature on title page
dated July 1854.	$750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The second edition (first is 1747); all 18th century editions have the
same plate count.

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