The Student's Instructor in Drawing and Working: The Five Orders of Architecture, Fully Explaining the Best Methods for Striking Regular and Quirked ... for Finding the True Diameter of an Order

Excerpt from The Student's Instructor in Drawing and Working: The Five Orders of Architecture, Fully Explaining the Best Methods for Striking Regular and Quirked Mouldings, for Diminishing and Glueing of Columns and Capitals, for Finding the True Diameter of an Order to Any Given HeightThe usefulness of this little volume has been fully proved by the great numbers which have been sold: a new edition being now called for, I have examined the work throughout, and have made such corrections and additions as appeared to be necessary to adapt it to the prevailing style of architecture to this purpose I have given a new plate containing a variety of Modern Mouldings, also six new ones of flntigue Doric Capitals and entabulatures, with the parts at large and in detail: so that in this small work every member of these specimens of ancient magnificence is equally clear and dis tinct, as in the large work Of the original author; and as Ihave reduced the proportions to the modular scale, they are more easily put in practice. Upon the whole, it will be found that the Greek Doric, which has Of late been so much in vogue, is fully explained and elucidated. I have also given an example of a chaste and noble Ionic Capital; all these are selected from Stuart's elegant and interesting work on the flntigaities of fltkens the other new plates are an outline Of the Composite Capital, for the use of learners, and an antique Ionic Door-case, proper to be drawn from or worked. These additions, on ten new plates, with various corrections in the descriptions, render this edition more complete and useful; and I think there is now nothing wanting to constitute it a com.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.