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Sep. 24, 2024
LANGLEY, Batty: THE CITY AND COUNTRY BUILDER'S AND WORKMAN'S TREASURY OF DESIGNS ... (1745)
Est: $300 - $500
LANGLEY, Batty: THE CITY AND COUNTRY BUILDER'S AND WORKMAN'S TREASURY OF DESIGNS ... (1745) Batty Langley, The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs: Or the Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture … (S. Harding, London, 1745) Quarto, later half calf with cloth board, the label gilt-lettered Largely intact excepting a few plates evidently excised
Leonard Joel
May. 23, 2024
Tree plantations.- Langley (Batty) A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantation of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and Other Timber-trees, first edition, Printed for Francis Clay & Daniel Browne, 1728...
Est: £400 - £600
Tree plantations.- Langley (Batty) A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantations of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and Other Timber-trees, Coppice-Woods, &c., first edition, issue with pp.viii-xx incorrectly numbered, title printed in red and black, engraved folding plate, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, plate light browned, occasional spotting, but generally crisp and clean internally, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments, lacking label, upper cover detached, spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed and marked, [Fussell I, p.27; Goldsmiths' 6587; Henrey 929; Hunt 473], 8vo, Printed for Francis Clay & Daniel Browne, 1728. *** First edition of Langley's work on the economical planting and raising of different trees for timber, thereby avoiding inevitable deforestation. Langley (1696-1751) was an English landscape gardener and architect. Provenance: Lord John Somers (engraved armorial bookplate to front pastedown).
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May. 11, 2023
L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 1756.
Est: £200 - £300
NO RESERVE L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 199 engraved plates only (of 200, lacking plate 17), rather soiled and stained, plate 12 with short tear to fore-edge just extending into plate but not affecting image, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked (stained), new endpapers, [Harris 452; cf.Berlin Kat. 2276, first edition], S.Harding, 1756; and vol.2 only (of 5) of Horace Walpole's Works of 1798, 4to (2) ⁂ Popular pattern book including designs for doors, windows, chimneypieces, pavements, church fittings, obelisks, pedestals, bookcases, ceilings and ironwork.
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Oct. 20, 2022
Langley (Batty) The Builder's Director, or Bench-Mate..., 1792 & Builder's Jewel, 1763 & others, similar (9)
Est: £600 - £800
Langley (Batty) The Builder's Director, or Bench-Mate: being a Pocket-Treasury...of Architecture, 184 engraved plates on 92 sheets (printed on both sides), modern bookplate of P. & L.Waterhouse, I. & J.Taylor, [c.1792] § Langley (Batty & Thomas)The Builder's Jewel: or, the Youth's Instructor, and Workman's Remembrancer, tenth edition, engraved frontispiece and 99 plates, contemporary ink inscription "Thos. Morton's Book 1789" to head of title, plates 30 & 66 lacking lower portion where poorly trimmed, old pencil or ink sketches to verso of a few plates and endpapers, rather soiled, for C. & R.Ware, 1763 § Neve (Richard) The City and Country Purchaser's and Builder's Dictionary..., third edition, engraved frontispiece of Chiswick House, for B.Sprint, 1736 § Salmon (William) The London and Country Builder's Vade Mecum: Or, The Complete and Universal Estimator, fifth edition, engraved frontispiece, a little soiled and damp-stained, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, modern calf, S. Crowder and B. Collins, 1773 § Building Act (The)...shewing the proper thickness of party-walls, external-walls, and chimnies, 3 engraved plates, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, spotted, modern calf-backed boards, Cambridge, J.Archdeacon for Taylor's Architectural Library, 1791, the first three all contemporary calf or sheep, rubbed, rebacked, [Harris 430, 436, 597, 792 & 92]; and 4 others, similar, including a defective first edition of The Builder's Price-Book of 1776, 8vo (9)
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Oct. 20, 2022
Langley (Batty and Thomas) Gothic Architecture, 1747.
Est: £400 - £600
Langley (Batty and Thomas) Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions in many Grand Designs..., engraved throughout with title and 64 plates, a little stained and damaged by damp causing loss to foot of plate XLV (affecting imprint, repaired), worming causing loss to last few plates, a few other tears and repairs, old marbled boards, rubbed, rebacked and recornered in calf, spine ruled in gilt with tan morocco label, [Harris 410; cf.Berlin Kat. 2278, first edition], 4to, for John Millan, 1747. ⁂ A reissue with new title of Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved...in the Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens of 1742. This was an attempt to systematise Gothic architecture into orders, partly following the inspiration of William Kent, with splendid plates of Gothic umbrellos, temples, pavilions, windows and chimneypieces, but it was poorly received. "For inventing five Gothic orders, which he published in 1742, Batty Langley was so ridiculed by his contemporaries (Walpole especially), so despised by serious nineteenth-century revivalists, that his name has become a pejorative for the light-hearted style in general." (Harris).
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Oct. 20, 2022
Langley (Batty) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, S.Harding, 1741.
Est: £600 - £800
L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, ?first edition, ?second issue, 200 engraved plates, title with contemporary ink inscription "Rev.Saml. Almaty 1766" at head and slightly frayed at edges, text browned, slight water-staining to upper edge and worming to outer and lower margins (mostly single hole but worse towards end and just touching edge of final plate), modern sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, spine slightly faded, [Not in Harris but cf.449 & 450 and Berlin Kat. 2276], 4to, by S.Harding, 1741. ⁂ Popular pattern book including designs for doors, windows, chimneypieces, pavements, church fittings, obelisks, pedestals, bookcases, ceilings and ironworks. This 1741 edition is not listed by Harris; it contains the 186 plates of the first edition of 1740 published by Thomas Langley (with plate 186 misnumbered) and the 14 additional plates of roofs of Harding's second edition of 1745 but with pagination of the second edition and date 1741.
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Jun. 24, 2021
Architecture.- Langley (Batty and Thomas) The Builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrances, first edition, printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, 1741.
Est: £300 - £400
Architecture.- Langley (Batty and Thomas) The Builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrances, first edition, 99 engraved plates, lacking engraved frontispiece, plate 69 trimmed at outer edge just within border, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments, upper cover detaching, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 16mo, printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, 1741. ⁂ Rare first edition of this title.
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Feb. 04, 2021
Architecture & Economics.- Langley (Batty) The London prices of bricklayers materials and works both of new buildings and repairs justly ascertained, rare second edition, printed for Richard Adams, at â¦
Est: £150 - £200
NO RESERVE Architecture & Economics.- Langley (Batty) The London prices of bricklayers materials and works, both of new buildings and repairs...and the common exactions and abuses therein detected...wherein the abutments of all sorts of arches, and the manner of building brick-flooring for the prevention of fire, is clearly explained...illustrated with a great variety of designs for plain and rusticated piers, for gates, piazzas...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, second edition, 31 (of 32) engraved plates (lacking plate 32), plate 23 partly trimmed within border, stained, some spotting, lightly browned throughout, contemporary calf, lacking lower cover, upper cover stitched in place, worn, [Harris 460; Goldsmiths' 8501], 8vo, printed for Richard Adams, at Dryden's Head, Holborn Bars; and John Wren, at the Bible and Crown, Great Turn-Stile, Holborn, 1750. sold not subject to return. ⁂ One of the rarest of Langley's titles in commerce, which is extensively quoted by Nathaniel Lloyd in his History of English Brickwork. It was partly written in order to reduce fraud in the building trade.
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Jan. 21, 2021
Architecture.- L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs: or the Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture, 1741.
Est: £150 - £200
NO RESERVE Architecture.- L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs: or the Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture, 184 engraved plates only (of 186, lacking nos. 156 and 184), modern rexine, 4to, S. Harding, 1741.
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Sep. 25, 2020
Langley (Batty and Thomas) Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved..., first edition, with additional plates, [1742].
Est: £1,500 - £2,000
Langley (Batty and Thomas) Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved...in the Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens, first edition, engraved title in second state (without plea to subscribers), 2 letterpress dedications, list of subscribers and 4pp. text, 64 engraved plates, with plates XXI-XL of Langley's 'City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs' of 1740 bound in at end, Robert Hartwell's copy with his ink signature on title, a good clean copy in contemporary speckled sheep, gilt, rubbed, a few marks, scuff to lower cover repaired, rebacked preserving old roan label, some corners repaired, [Harris 409], 4to, [1742]. ⁂ Rare first edition later reissued in 1747 as Gothic Architecture Improved. This was the first major English attempt to systematise Gothic architecture into orders, partly following the inspiration of William Kent, with splendid plates of Gothic umbrellos, temples, pavilions, windows and chimneypieces. Plate XXXVII of the additional plates from the City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs is a cancel and is captioned "The Curvatures of Raking Moldings for Entire and open Pediments, and for the Capping of their Mutules and Modilions. By Mr. Robert Hartwell of ye Tower of London Carp.r".
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Sep. 17, 2020
Gardens.- Langley (Batty) New Principles of Gardening, first edition, 1728 [1727]
Est: £300 - £500
Gardens.- Langley (Batty) New Principles of Gardening: Or The Laying Out and Planting [of] Parterres, Groves, Widernesses, Labyrinths, Avenues, Parks, &c., first edition, title in red & black, 26 folding or double-page plates and plans only (of 28, lacking plates 16 & 17), contemporary ink signature "Mr Mayor" to head of title with plates numbered in contemporary manuscript on verso, several creased or torn, some repairs, occasional soiling, bookplates of John Rowden Freme, Francis Gray Smart and John Harris, contemporary calf, rubbed, old reback, covers detached, [Berlin Kat. 3414; Harris 462; Henrey 927], 4to, for A. Bettesworth and J. Batley [&c.], 1728 [1727]. ⁂ Langley disliked formality in garden design and favoured planting in what appeared a natural manner. He is particularly known for his labyrinths and this work includes many plans of mazes, also much on kitchen and physic gardens. In this issue, there is an 'Advertisement to the nobility and gentry of Great Britain' printed on the verso of the title, and there are four contents leaves inserted after the introduction. Pages iv and v in the preliminaries are mis-numbered xi and x.
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Jun. 09, 2020
Langley (Batty) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, second edition, S. Harding, 1745.
Est: £600 - £800
L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, second edition, double column, 200 engraved plates, plate 1 of additional plates with section torn from lower corner, just touching image, some staining or finger-marking, occasional spotting, engraved armorial bookplate of Penry Williams, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, preserving original backstrip in compartments with original red morocco label, corners repaired, rubbed and scuffed, [Harris 450], 4to, by S.Harding, 1745. ⁂ Including designs for floors, doors, windows, chimneypieces, pavements, church fittings, obelisks, pedestals, bookcases, ceilings and ironworks. It has 14 more plates (of roofs) than the first edition of 1740.
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May. 31, 2018
Architecture.- Langley (Batty and Thomas) Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions in many Grand Designs ..., 1747.
Est: £400 - £600
Architecture.- Langley (Batty and Thomas) Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions in many Grand Designs ..., 64 engraved plates, faint spotting to endpapers only, bookplate, contemporary speckled calf, a little rubbed, joints beginning to crack, 4to, 1747. ⁂ Batty Langley (1696-1751) was renowned for his garden plans and architecture in the Gothic style, as well as his rebellion against the stiff layouts of John Claudius Loudon and Henry Wise. He wrote over twenty architectural books, many of them intended for builders.
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Oct. 21, 2017
Batty Langley, Practical Geometry applied to the useful arts of Building, S
Est: £200 - £300
Batty Langley, Practical Geometry applied to the useful arts of Building, Surveying, Gardening and Mensuration, Calculated for the Service of Gentlemen as Well as Artisans..., 1726, appears to have three of the forty plates missing - Stock Ref:3414-16
Bishop & Miller Auctioneers
Sep. 02, 2015
Langley, Batty
Est: £500 - £700
Langley, Batty The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs: or the art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. London: John, Francis & Charles Rivington, 1777. 4to, [24pp.], 200 engraved plates (comprising 186 + 14 plates), contemporary calf, formerly rebacked, rubbed, joint split
Lyon & Turnbull
Jun. 05, 2014
The City and Country Builder's, and Workman's Treasury of Designs...
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
viii, 24pp. 187 engraved plates (numbered I-CLXXXV, CLXXXIV, with plate XXXVII present in two different states). (4to) 28.5x23 cm (11¼x9") period full calf, rebacked with original spine label laid down. First Edition.
PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
May. 14, 2013
Langley, Batty
Est: £200 - £300
Langley, Batty A sure method of improving estates. London: F. Clay & D. Browne, 1728. First edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, lacks folding plate, neatly rebacked, upper joint cracked; Laurence, Edward The duty and office of a land steward. London, 1743. Third edition, 8vo, folding frontispiece and 1 folding plate, contemporary calf, plates with short split at fold, slightly stained throughout, neatly rebacked (2)
Lyon & Turnbull
May. 23, 2012
L[ANGLEY], B[atty] (1696-1751). The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs . London: John and Francis Rivington, 1770. 2° (295 x 230mm). 200 plates by and after Batty and Thomas Langley. (Some staining to title and second
Est: £800 - £1,200
L[ANGLEY], B[atty] (1696-1751). The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs. London: John and Francis Rivington, 1770. 2° (295 x 230mm). 200 plates by and after Batty and Thomas Langley. (Some staining to title and second leaf, plates 13 and 14 creased.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, recornered and scuffed). Fifth edition. Harris 453; RIBA 1746. [Sold with:] BIELEFELD, Charles Frederick. On the use of the Improved Papier Mâché in Furniture. London: Papier Mâché Works, No. 15, Wellington Street North, Strand, [n.d., but c.1840]. Title vignette showing the Bielefeld's works, engraved frontispiece, text-figs. 6pp. [Bound with:] -- Ornaments in Every Style of Design. London: by the author, 1840. 4° (357 x 275mm). 85 engraved plates and 38 lithographic plates. (Occasional soiling, browning and staining.) Original brown ribbed cloth (recased, extremities lightly rubbed, covers lightly stained, corners fractionally bumped). Second edition of the second work; the plates illustrate a collection of panels, consoles, friezes and ceiling roses. With 7 other similar works (see www.christies.com for more details). (10)
Christie's
Sep. 27, 2011
A Hand-Colored Botanical Print by Batty Langley (1696-1791).
Est: $150 - $250
A Hand-Colored Botanical Print by Batty Langley (1696-1791). Plate size: 13.5 x 19 inches.
Gray's Auctioneers
May. 05, 2010
After Batty Langley 1696-1751- A Gothick Temple;
Est: £20 - £30
After Batty Langley 1696-1751- A Gothick Temple; reproduction print, 37x25: together with five other similar reproduction prints of architectural subjects after 18th century originals, (6)
Roseberys
Jan. 16, 2008
Langley, Batty
Est: £600 - £900
Langley, Batty Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration... London: printed for W. and J. Innys, et al, 1726. First edition, folio, 39 [of 40] folding plates, lacking plate 30, plate 14 repaired at crease, other plates creased and browned at folds, title in red and black, modern calf gilt, red morocco label, 18th century owner's ink inscription to title, some slight staining to edges
Lyon & Turnbull
Sep. 05, 2007
Langley, Batty
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Langley, Batty Practical geometry applied to the useful arts of building, surveying, gardening and mensuration... London: printed for W. and J. Innys, et al, 1726. First edition, folio, 39 [of 40] folding plates, lacking plate 30, plate 14 repaired at crease, other plates creased and browned at folds, title in red and black, modern calf gilt, red morocco label, 18th century owner''s ink inscription to title, some slight staining to edges
Lyon & Turnbull
Sep. 22, 2005
LANGLEY, Batty (1696-1751). Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden Illustrated. Containing Sure
Est: £1,200 - £1,800
LANGLEY, Batty (1696-1751). Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden Illustrated. Containing Sure Methods for Improving all the Best Kinds of Fruits now Extant in England, London: G. Strahan (and others), 1729. 2° (406 x 262mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved plates numbered from I - LXXVIIII on 68 leaves (title rather spotted and browned, plates and margins of text leaves lightly browned and spotted, some light staining to upper right hand corner of some plates and most text leaves). Modern black half morocco gilt (new endpapers). Dunthorne 75; Henrey 928; Hunt 478; Nissen BBI 1135.
Christie's
Apr. 20, 2005
LANGLEY, Batty (1696-1751). Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden Illustrated. Containing Sure
Est: £2,000 - £4,000
LANGLEY, Batty (1696-1751). Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden Illustrated. Containing Sure Methods for Improving all the Best Kinds of Fruits now Extant in England, London: G. Strahan (and others), 1729. 2° (406 x 262mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved plates numbered from I - LXXVIIII on 68 leaves (title rather spotted and browned, plates and margins of text leaves lightly browned and spotted, some light staining to upper right hand corner of some plates and most text leaves). Modern black half morocco gilt (new endpapers). Dunthorne 75; Henrey 928; Hunt 478; Nissen BBI 1135.
Christie's
Apr. 14, 2005
LANGLEY, BATTY (1696-1751).
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
The builder's chest-book; or, a complete key to the five orders in architecture... The second edition, much improv'd. London: for J. Wilcox and James Hodges, 1739 Condition Note: 12mo (171 x 93mm.), vi, vi, 142pp., illustration : woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 7 folding engraved plates, binding : slightly later calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering-piece, red edges We are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described in our catalogue. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSION CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE. LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Harris 416; cf. BAL RIBA 1730 (1st edition of 1727) CATALOGUE NOTE Langley was much interested in freemasonry, which had been founded in England in 1717. "The 'Dialogue' on architecture between M and P, master and pupil, in The builder's chest-book (1727), suggests an early form of masonic catechism" (Harris, p.264). This second edition was also issued together with Isaac Gadsdon's Geometrical rules, not present in this copy.
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LANGLEY, Batty: THE CITY AND COUNTRY BUILDER'S AND WORKMAN'S TREASURY OF DESIGNS ... (1745)

Tree plantations.- Langley (Batty) A Sure Method of Improving Estates, by Plantation of Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, and Other Timber-trees, first edition, Printed for Francis Clay & Daniel Browne, 1728...

L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, 1756.

Langley (Batty) The Builder's Director, or Bench-Mate..., 1792 & Builder's Jewel, 1763 & others, similar (9)

Langley (Batty and Thomas) Gothic Architecture, 1747.

Langley (Batty) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, S.Harding, 1741.

Architecture.- Langley (Batty and Thomas) The Builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrances, first edition, printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, 1741.

Architecture & Economics.- Langley (Batty) The London prices of bricklayers materials and works both of new buildings and repairs justly ascertained, rare second edition, printed for Richard Adams, at â¦

Architecture.- L[angley] (B[atty]) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs: or the Art of Drawing and Working the Ornamental Parts of Architecture, 1741.

Langley (Batty and Thomas) Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved..., first edition, with additional plates, [1742].

Gardens.- Langley (Batty) New Principles of Gardening, first edition, 1728 [1727]

Langley (Batty) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs, second edition, S. Harding, 1745.

Architecture.- Langley (Batty and Thomas) Gothic Architecture, Improved by Rules and Proportions in many Grand Designs ..., 1747.

Batty Langley, Practical Geometry applied to the useful arts of Building, S

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L[ANGLEY], B[atty] (1696-1751). The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs . London: John and Francis Rivington, 1770. 2° (295 x 230mm). 200 plates by and after Batty and Thomas Langley. (Some staining to title and second

A Hand-Colored Botanical Print by Batty Langley (1696-1791).

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LANGLEY, Batty (1696-1751). Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden Illustrated. Containing Sure

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