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Gibbs’s rules for drawing in Architecture.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 129, no. 29, as above, but reading
Gibb’s.
GIBBS,
James.
Rules for Drawing the several Parts of Architecture, in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by
which all Fractions, in dividing the principal Members and their Parts, are avoided. By James Gibbs. The
Second Edition.
London: Printed for
W. Innys;
R. Manby;
J. and P. Knapton; and
C. Hitch,
mdccxxxviii
. [1738.]
Folio. 24 leaves of text, LXIV numbered engraved plates.
Lowndes II, 887.
Kimball, page 94.
Dr. Kimball (who erroneously ascribes to the Jefferson library the third edition of 1753) suggests that Jefferson may have
acquired his copy about 1769. He certainly had it before December 20, 1798, on which day he addressed a memorandum to his
son-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph: “
M
r. Dinsmore asked me to lend him Gibb’s Rules for drawing, and I forgot to lay it out for him. it is a large thin folio, lying
uppermost of a parcel of books laid horizontally on the shelf close to my turning chair. be so good as to give it to him.
it is bound in rough calf, and one lid off . . .
”
For Jefferson’s use of this work, see Kimball, pages 122, 127.
James Gibbs, 1682-1754, Scots architect, studied in Rome and in Holland and returned to England in 1710. He built the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
and other churches and buildings in London, including St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. He built the Radcliffe Library and the Gothic
quadrangle at All Souls in Oxford, and in Cambridge the King’s College Library and the Senate House. He built also many private
homes in England and in Scotland. The first edition of his
Rules for Drawing was published in 1732.
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9
Langley’s practical geometry.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. 30, as above.
LANGLEY,
Batty.
Practical Geometry applied to the Useful Arts of Building, Surveying, Gardening and Mensuration; calculated for the Service
of Gentlemen as well as Artisans, and set to View in Four Parts. Containing, I. Preliminaries or the Foundations of the several
Arts above-mentioned. II. The various Orders of Architecture, laid down and improved from the best Masters; with the Ways
of making Draughts of Buildings, Gardens, Groves, Fountains, &c. the laying down of Maps, Cities, Lordships, Farms, &c. III.
The Doctrine and Rules of Mensuration of all Kinds, illustrated by select Examples in Building, Gardening, Timber, &c. IV.
Exact Tables of Mensuration, shewing, by inspection, the superficial and solid Contents of all Kinds of Bodies, without the
Fatigue of Arithmetical Computation: To which is annexed, An Account of the Clandestine Practice now generally obtaining in
Mensuration, and particularly the Damage sustained in selling Timber by Measure. The Whole exemplifi’d with above 60
Folio Copper Plates, by the best Hands. By Batty Langley. The
Second Edition.
London: Printed for
Aaron Ward,
1729.
