A Sure Guide to Builders: Or, The Principles and Practice of Architecture Geometrically Demonstrated, and made Easy, For the Use of Workmen in general.
Artwork Details
- Title: A Sure Guide to Builders: Or, The Principles and Practice of Architecture Geometrically Demonstrated, and made Easy, For the Use of Workmen in general.
- Author: Batty Langley (British, Twickenham baptised 1696–1751 London)
- Publisher: W. Mears (London)
- Publisher: J. Wilcox (London)
- Publisher: Thomas Wright (British, active 1729)
- Published in: London
- Date: 1729
- Medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving
- Dimensions: 10 3/16 × 7 11/16 × 1 1/8 in. (25.8 × 19.5 × 2.9 cm)
- Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
- Object Number: 52.519.7
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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