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

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751 · 1742 · [London : s.n.] · 18 pictures

Ancient Architecture, Restored and Improved is an 1742 London pattern book by Batty Langley, a builder and architectural writer, issued for craftsmen, builders and garden designers who wanted Gothick designs for buildings and gardens. Its engraved plates show elevations, plans and details of Gothick doorways, towers and garden structures drawn in clean, measured line with lettered scale bars, giving a designer ready-made proportions for pointed arches, pinnacles, columns and quatrefoil tracery.

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