A treatise of the five orders of columns in architecture Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Wherein The Proportions and Characters of the Members Of their several Pedestals, Columns and Entablatures, Are distinctly consider'd with respect to the Practice of the Antients and Moderns. Also A most Natural, Easie and Practicable Method laid down for determining the mostminute Part in all the Orders, without a Fraction. To which is annex'd, a discourse concerning pilasters: and of several abuses introduc'd into architecture. Engraven on six folio plates of the Several Orders adorn'd with Twenty-Four borders, as many initial letters, and a like number of tail-pieces, b John Sturt. Written in French by Claude Perrault, Of the Royal Academy of Paris. Author of Ye Celebrated Comment on Vitruvius. Made English by John James of Greenwich
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
printed by Benj. Motte, MDCCVIII. Sold by John Sturt in Golden-Lion-Court in Aldersgate Street
1708, [1708]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T114390. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The titlepage is engraved. - With an additional titlepage, engraved, an engraved dedication leaf, and two engraved leaves bearing a list of subscribers. - With two final leaves of errata and advertisements |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([6],XXI,[1],131,[5]p.,plates) ill 2° |