[Rarebooks] FS: Langley's work on architecture. Scarce 2nd ed. w/14 additional plates. London: 1745

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(ARCHITECTURE) Langley, Batty. 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 for Aliquot Parts. With an Appendix of Fourteen Plates of Trusses for Girders and Beams... and a Variety of Rooks, &c. To Which Are Prefixed, the Five Orders of Columns, According to Andrea Palladio... for the Immediate Use of Workmen, Never Published Before, in Any Language... By B. L. London: Printed and Sold by S. Harding. 1745. Lg. 4to. (2),22pp., double column text. Plus 200 fine copper engraved plates (complete) by Thomas Langley. Orig. calf, covers worn & a bit chipped, rebacked some time ago, later black calf spine label. Trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown.                       $1,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The scarce 2nd edition with 14 additional plates not found in the 1st edition of 1740. Standard reference work for every builder at this date, now quite uncommon, with all 200 plates.  Harris 450.

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