Practice of Architecture: Containing the Five Orders of Architecture and an Additional Column and Entablature, With All Their Elements and Details Explained and Illustrated, for the Use of Carpenters - Hardcover

Asher Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0266382878 ISBN 13: 9780266382874

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Practice of Architecture: Containing the Five Orders of Architecture and an Additional Column and Entablature, With All Their Elements and Details Explained and Illustrated, for the Use of Carpenters and Practical Men; With Sixty Plates

I have given examples of each of the five orders of Architecture; first in the usual way, then repeating their details upon a large scale. There are likewise added a Column and Entablature, selected from the Grecian antiquities, and standing, with regard to expense, between the Tuscan and Doric orders.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0266382878
• ISBN 13: 9780266382874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 234