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