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Location 239 - Archived

Posted on 10/04/201908/11/2020

Full title of the book (English translation if the title is not in English):

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 by B. & T. Langley

Full name of the author, plus dates of birth and death:
Batty Langley (1696 – 1751)

Year and place of publication for the first edition of the book

1742

Language(s)

English

Number of volumes (if more than one)

First leaf is engraved title. Second leaf printed letterpress on both sides in double columns. It is signed at end by Batty Langley and dated 31 Jan. 1747. Caption title: On the ancient buildings in this kingdom.
Reissue with new t.p. of the plates of Ancient architecture restored and improved (London, 1742); see ESTC. Plates retain dates 1741 and 1742.

Name of the library:
ETH Bibliotek Hönger Berg (HDB); signatur: 19475

Stable link to an online database:

https://archive.org/details/architectureimpro00lang/page/n21
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/gothic_architecture-langley_1742.pdf
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t7jq2830b&view=1up&seq=31

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