The music of the eye; or, Essays on the principles of the beauty and perfection of architecture, as founded on and deduced from reason and analogy, and adapted to what may be traced of the ancient theories of taste, in the three first chapters of Vitruvius ..
An 1831 London treatise by Peter Legh arguing architectural beauty from reason, analogy and the opening chapters of Vitruvius, addressed to architects and students of taste. The plates are fine outline engravings of colonnades, arcades, entablatures and domes in elevation and section, with numbered figures and bare line weight useful for diagram borders, repeating arch rhythms and classical order silhouettes.
