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Batty Langley

(Langley, Batty, 1696-1751)

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• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Abstract of text from Builders' jewel and Builder's chest-book (London, 1746) (Reprint Company, 1910), also by T. Langley and Batty Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Ancient architecture, restored and improved by a great variety of grand and usefull designs, entirely new, in the Gothick mode, for the ornamenting of buildings and gardens : exceeding everything thats extant, : exquisitely engraved on LXIV large quarto copper-plates and printed on superfine royal paper (s.n., 1742), also by T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. (Boston Architectural Club, 1922), also by Boston Architectural Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture (Printed for and sold by S. Harding ..., 1745), also by T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Builder's complete assistant (Printed for I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1790), also by T. Langley, Andrea Palladio, and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: The builder's director, or bench-mate : being a pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman and Gothic orders of architecture ... : wherein the orders of Andrea Palladio are truly laid down, free from erroneous measures ... (Printed for and sold by H. Piers ..., 1751), also by Andrea Palladio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Builder's jewel (Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, H. Baldwin, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, W. Lowndes, and I. and J. Taylor ..., 1787), also by W. Lowndes, Thomas Longman, T. Langley, London G. G. J. and J. Robinson (Paternoster-Row, and F. J. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Builder's jewel (Printed by S. Etheridge ;, 1800), also by Samuel Hill, Samuel Etheridge, and T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Builders' jewel and chest-book (Reprint Company, 1902), also by T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer (J. Tiranti, 1928), also by T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: The builder's jewel: or the youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer (Printed for R. Ware, 1763), also by T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working, I. The five orders of columns entire ... II. Block and cantaliver cornices ... (Printed for R. Ware, 1751), also by T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: The builder's jewel, or, The youth's instructor and workman's remembrancer : explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working (Printed for C. and R. Ware, 1768), also by T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs : or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture ... (Printed for and sold by S. Harding, 1750) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions : In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples, and pavillions &c. : With plans, elevations and profiles geometrically explained : To which is added an historical dissertation on Gothic architecture (Printed for I. & J. Taylor, 1742) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions : in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples and pavillions &c. : with plans, elevations and profiles (Printed for John Millan, near Whitehall, 1747), also by John Millan and T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Gothic architecture improved by rules and proportions. : In many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney-pieces, arcades, colonades, porticos, umbrellos, temples and pavillions, &c., with plans, elevations and profiles; geometrically explained (Gregg, 1967), also by T. Langley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: The London prices of bricklayers materials and works : both of new buildings and repairs, justly ascertained, and the common exactions and abuses therein detected, interspersed with rules for estimating, performing and measuring all kinds of ... brick-works ... : also illustrated with a great variety of designs for plain and rusticated piers, for gates, piazzas, &c., in thirty-two curious copper plates ... (Printed for Richard Adams ... and John Wren ..., 1750), also by John Wren and Richard Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: New principles of gardening: or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. after a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before; with experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens and flowering-shrubs with which gardens are adorn'd. To which is added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, &c. of the kitchen and physick gardens, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general ... (Printed foe A. Bettesworth and J. Batley [etc.], 1728) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: A pocket edition of treasury of designs; or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture (J. Tiranti, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening, and mensuration : calculated for the service of gentlemen as well as artists, and set to view in four parts ... : to which is annexed, an account of the clandestine practice now generally obtaining in mensuration, and particularly the damage sustained in felling timber by measure : the whole exemplifi'd with above 60 folio copper plates, by the best hands (Printed for W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman, B. Lintot, J. Woodman and D. Lyons, C. King, E. Symon, and W. Bell, 1726), also by W. Bell, Edward Symon, Charles King, Bernard Lintot, J. Woodman and D. Lyons, T. Longman (Firm), and W. and J. Innys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Principles of ancient masonry, or, A general system of building compleated (Printed for, and sold by the author ... :, 1736) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: A sure and easy method of improving estates; by plantation of oak, elm, ash, beech, birch, plutanus, Portugal chestnut, horse chestnut, walnut, lime, service, maple, sycamore, vornbeam, quickbeam, hazel, fu, pine and all kinds of aquatics, etc. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantage thereof; with their manner of raising, cultivating felling, etc. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improved. Together with an appendix, of the mensuration of timber, after the common method; and the deceitful way of taking dimensions. Likewise geometrical rules for the true mensuration thereof (Printed for F. Noble, 1740) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Sure guide to builders (Printed for W. Mears ... J. Wilcox ... Tho. Wright ... and by the author ..., 1729), also by Tho Wright, J. Wilcox, and W. Mears (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: A sure method of improving estates, by plantations of oak, elm, ash, beech, and other timber-trees, coppice-woods, &c. Wherein is demonstrated, the necessity and advantages thereof; their manner of raising, cultivating, felling, &c. in all kinds of soils, whereby estates may be greatly improv'd. Offered to the consideration of the nobility and gentry of Great-Britain. (Printed for F. Clay and D. Browne, 1728) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Langley, Batty, 1696-1751: Treasury of designs (Printed for and sold by S. Harding on the Pavement in St. Martin's Lane, 1741) (page images at HathiTrust)

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