The rudiments of ancient architecture : in two parts : containing an historical account of the five orders, with their proportions and examples of each from the antiques ; also Vitruvius on the temples and intercolumniations, &c. of the ancients ... With a dictionary of terms ...

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Publication:

London : Printed for I. & J. Taylor, 1789.

Description:

2 preliminary leaves, viii, 84 pages : illustrations, portrait, 10 plates (including frontispiece) ; 23 cm

Notes:
"It is interesting to compare the vignette portrait of James Stuart, by Basire, on the title page with the seated figure in the lower right-hand corner of pl. II, vol. II, of the Antiquities of Athens by Stuart and Revett."--Fowler Cat. no. 278

Subject:

Architecture, Greek.
Architecture, Roman.
Architecture Orders.
Architecture grecque.
Architecture romaine.
Architecture Ordres.

Form/genre:

Treatises.

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Location: Library cage 30783
Call No.: NA44.V848 (5914)
Status: Available

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