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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.
printed by Benj. Motte, MDCCVIII. Sold by John Sturt in Golden-Lion-Court in Aldersgate Street
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