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 by upwards of four hundred grand designs neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper plates, for piers, gates, doors ... [etc.] : with an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, etc. : to which are prefix'd the five orders of columns according to Andrea Palladio ... : with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modilions, &c. ...
Batty Langley's 1745 London pattern book, printed by S. Harding, offers builders and craftsmen engraved designs for piers, gates, doors and cornices in the classical manner. The plates show architectural elevations with carefully ruled profiles, shaded moldings and panel frames, a designer might take their proportioned mouldings, pediments and rusticated surrounds as ready-made vocabulary for ornament and layout.
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