Folio. 78 leaves, 41 numbered and folded engraved plates of illustrations, 1 folded engraved plate of Tables; a copy of this
edition was not seen for collation.
Batty Langley, 1696-1751, English architectural writer and landscape gardener. The first edition of this work was printed in 1726.
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10
Halfpenny’s practical architecture.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 129, no. 3, as above.
HALFPENNY,
William.
Practical Architecture, or a sure Guide to the true Working according to the Rules of that Science, representing the Five
Orders, with their Several Doors and Windows, taken from Inigo Jones and other Celebrated Architects . . .
[
London] Printed and sold for T. Bowles,
1724.
It is not certain which edition of this work was in Jefferson’s library. The book is marked
missing in the working copy of the 1815 Catalogue, and the entry is omitted from subsequent editions. It is on the manuscript list
of missing books made after 1815. Dr. Kimball, page 94, credits Jefferson with the edition of 1724, and suggests that he may
have acquired the book with his purchases from the library of William Byrd of Westover. The book is entered by Jefferson without
price in his undated manuscript catalogue.
The fact that this book was entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue presupposes that he acquired it during his residence in Europe rather than at the sale of the library of William Byrd of Westover.
William Halfpenny, alias Michael Hoare, fl. 1752, English architect and carpenter. He practised architecture in London in the first half of
the eighteenth century and was the author of a number of books on the subject.
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J.11
The Builders’ dictionary.
2. v.
8
vo
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. 7, as above.
The Builder’s Dictionary: or, Gentleman and Architect’s Companion. Explaining not only the Terms of Art in all the several
Parts of Architecture, but also containing the Theory and Practice of the Various Branches thereof, requisite to be known
by Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Painters, Glaziers, Smiths, Turners, Carvers, Statuaries, Plumbers,
&c. Also Necessary Problems in Arithmetic, Geometry, Mechanics, Perspective, Hydraulics, and other Mathematical Sciences.
Together with the Quantities, Proportions, and Prices of all Kinds of Materials used in Building; with Directions for Chusing,
Preparing, and Using them: the several Proportions of the Five Orders of Architecture, and all their Members, according to
Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi, Vignola, M. Le Clerc, &c. With Rules for the Valuation of Houses, and the Expence calculated
of Erecting any Fabrick, Great or Small. The Whole Illustrated with more than Two Hundred Figures, many of them curiously
Engraven on Copper-Plates: Being a Work of great Use, not only to Artificers, but likewise to Gentlemen, and others, concerned
in Building, &c. Faithfully Digested from the most Approved Writers on these Subjects. In
Two Volumes.
London: Printed for
A. Bettesworth and
C. Hitch; and
S. Austen,
m. dcc. xxxiv
. [1734.]
NA31 .B82
First Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. 247 and 255 leaves printed in double columns, the pages not numbered, engraved frontispiece by Toms after I. Devoto, 33 engraved plates, numbered, some folded, numerous illustrations in the
