Letter 3339

Langley sends his book on gardening and recommends his other works, including the ‘Practical Geometry and Architecture’ and ‘Principles of Gardening’. They are being printed for the bookseller Mr Bately at Pater Noster Row. Langley’s goal in his architectural treatise was to explain ‘the Etymology, Characters, Proportions ornaments & of ye five orders of Columns in Architecture’. He is staying with Mr Manning, a broker at Leather Lane in Holborn. Batty Langley (bap. 1696, d. 1751) wrote works on gardening, garden design, and ancient and modern architecture (Eileen Harris, Langley, Batty (bap. 1696, d. 1751), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16022, accessed 20 Aug 2013]).