Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Langley, Batty
Batty Langley British garden designer
Langley, Batty (English architect and author, 1696-1751)
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Works
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An accurate description of Newgate : With the rights, privileges, allowances, fees, dues, and customs thereof. Together with a parallel between the master-debtors side of the said prison, and the several sponging-houses in the county of Middlesex. Wherein are set forth, The Cheapness of Living, Civility, Sobriety, Tranquillity, Liberty of Conversation, and Diversions of the former. And the Expensive Living, Incivility, Extortions, Close Confinement, and Abuses of the latter. Together with a faithful Account of the Impositions of Bailiffs; etc. and their vile Usage of all such Unfortunate Persons as fall into their Hands. To which is added, A true account of the parentage, birth, education, and practices of that noted Thief-Catcher Jonathan Savage. With an Account of the Methods to be used for Recovering Stollen Goods. Written for the publick good. By B. L. of Twickenham. | |
Ancient architecture | |
Ancient architecture restored and improved | |
Ancient masonry both in the theory and practice | |
Builders compleat assistant | |
The builder's director or bench-mate: being a pocket treasury of the Grecian, Roman, and Gothic orders of architecture ... By Batty Langley, architect. | |
The builder's jewel: | |
The builder's jewel: or, The youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer : Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working, I. The five orders of columns entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. And to enrich them with their rusticks, flutings, cablings, dentules, modillions, etc. Also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's, and arcades. Together with, fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modillions. II. Block and cantaliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brakets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs, domes, scales, and stair-cases. Illustrated by upwards of 220 examples, engraved on 108 copper-plates. By B. and T. Langley. | |
The builder's vade-mecum, or a Complete key to the five orders of columns in architecture | |
The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs. | |
Gothic architecture, improved by rules and proportions; in many grand designs of columns, doors, windows, chimney pieces, arcades, colonnades, porticoes, umbrellas, temples, and pavilions | |
Gothick architecture : a reprint of the original 1742 treatise | |
The London prices of bricklayers materials and works : both of new buildings and repairs, justly ascertained: and the common exactions and abuses therein detected. Interspersed with Rules for Estimating, Performing and Measuring all Kinds of Plain, Circular, Elliptical, Gothick, Spherical, Spheroidical, Conical and Pyramidical Brick-Works: wherein The Abutments of all Sorts of Arches, And the Manner of Building Brick-Flooring for the Prevention of Fire, is clearly explained. The Whole Arithmetically and Geometrically Demonstrated. Also Illustrated with a great Variety of Designs for Plain and Rusticated Piers, for Gates, Piazzas, etc. In Thirty-Two curious Copper Plates. Written for the Use of Gentlemen, Stewards, and Workmen in general, and particularly for such Landlords and Tenants who are subject to the Repairs of Buildings. By Batty Langley, architect. | |
New principles of gardening: or, The laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, etc : After a more grand and rural manner, than has been done before. With experimental directions for raising the several kinds of fruit-trees, forest-trees, ever-greens, and flowering-shrubs, with which gardens are adorn'd. To which are added, the various names, descriptions, temperatures, medicinal virtues, uses, and cultivations of several roots, pulse, herbs, etc. of the kitchen and physick garden, that are absolutely necessary for the service of families in general. Illustrated with great variety of grand designs, curiously engraven on twenty-eight folio plates, by the best hands. By Batty Langley, of Twickenham. | |
Pomona: | |
Pomona: or, The fruit-garden illustrated : Containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England. Calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects. Wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated ... Likewise several practical observations on the imbibing power and perspirations of fruit-trees; the several effects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits. To which is added, a curious account of the most valuable cyderfruits of Devonshire. The whole illustrated with above three hundred drawings of the several fruits, curiously engraven on seventy-nine large folio plates | |
Practical geometry ... 1926. | |
A reply to Mr John James's Review of the several pamphlets and schemes : That have been offer'd To the Publick, for the Building of a Bridge at Westminster; wherein his many Absurdities are detected, and the Manner of Measuring and Calculating the Quantity and Weight of Materials in all Kinds of Arches, explain'd. By which 'tis evident, That Mr. James is absolutely a Stranger to so much Geometry as is needful to come at the Measures of the Quantities of Materials to be imploy'd in such a Work, &c. And that a semicircular Stone Arch of 120 Feet in Diameter, has not so great a Pressure on its Base, as many Publick Buildings in this Kingdom have on theirs. Also, The Nature of the Tides, and Fall of Water at London Bridge, fully Explained. The Whole Exemplify'd by Geometrical Diagrams, and New Designs; demonstrating the Nature and Easy Performance of so great a Work | |
Sure method of improving estates | |
A survey of Westminster Bridge : As 'tis now sinking into ruin. Wherein the cause of the foundation giving way under the sinking pier, and its dislocated arches, is not only accounted for; but also, that the whole structure is likewise subject to the same immediate (if not unavoidable) ruin. With remarks on the piratical method used for building the piers. And a just estimate of the expence for which all their foundations might have been made secure with piles, until every stone, with which the bridge is built, was torn into atoms, by the hungry teeth of devouring time. By Batty Langley, of Meard's Court, Dean-Street, Soho, architect. | |
The workman's golden rule for drawing and working the five orders in architecture : Wherein Their Pedestals, Columns, Entablatures, Imposts, and Arches, are taken from the best Examples of the Ancients, and proportioned by equal Parts, in a more concise, accurate, and easy Manner, than has been done in any Language. For the Instruction Of Apprentices and Journeymen Masons, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Joiners, Carvers, Turners, Painters, Plaisterers, Cabinet-Makers, etc. (and such Masters) who are unacquainted with so much Architecture, as is absolutely necessary for them to understand, in their respective Professions. And Others, Who desire a Just Knowledge of the Fundamental Rules of that noble Art. By B. Langley, Architect. |