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).