Authority Cited: Builder’s Dict.
Author name and dates: The Builder’s Dictionary, or Gentleman and Architect’s Companion (pub. 1734) (compiler unknown; John Devoto (c.1708–1752), scene painter; William Henry Toms c.1700-1765, engraver)
BKG Bio-tweet: Terms of Art; Theory and Practice of Architecture; 200 illustrations
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 12 Builder's Dict. cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one cite in 1755 vol. 2. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists item 46 4. Builder's dictionary, 2 v. &c. ]
Author name and dates: The Builder’s Dictionary, or Gentleman and Architect’s Companion (pub. 1734) (compiler unknown; John Devoto (c.1708–1752), scene painter; William Henry Toms c.1700-1765, engraver)
BKG Bio-tweet: Terms of Art; Theory and Practice of Architecture; 200 illustrations
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 12 Builder's Dict. cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, one cite in 1755 vol. 2. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed. lists item 46 4. Builder's dictionary, 2 v. &c. ]
- Builder’s Dictionary, or Gentleman and Architect’s Companion: 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 . . . : 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 . . . . (published anonymously: "Faithfully Digested from the most Approved Writers on these Subjects") [Illustrated by W.H. (William Henry) Toms,, John Devoto (c.1708–1752)], 1734, London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch . . . , and S. Austen. . . . (2 vol. with 33 plates); architrave (images 40, 41); asherling; bay; beam; bearing; bedmoulding; bevel; bossage; boulder; brace; colonnade; firestone; mortar [BKG Note: identified [June 2024) as unattributed by Prof. Matthew Davis, U. of Virginia; source identified by Davis as The Builder's Dictionary.]; order (the quote for order appears to be extracted from several pages in vol. 2 starting at image 114, perhaps from the plate giving column dimensions on plate 115) [BKG Note: after the A and B entries, the Builder's Dict. appears to be also quoted in definitions without attribution to the work. Thanks to Prof. Beth Rapp Young for locating the Devoto portrait below.]
John Devoto (fl. 1708–1752)
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Creative Commons License, National Portrait Gallery