The Builder's Director, or Bench-mate: Being a Pocket-treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic Orders of Architecture, ... Engraved on 184 Copper Pl

By Batty Langley

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

N053815

With an index.

London: printed: and sold by I. Taylor, No 56, nearly opposite Turnstile, Holborn; and by all booksellers in town and country, 1790?]. xxivp.,184 plates; 8

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1385837098
• ISBN13: 9781385837092
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"