Practical architecture, or, A sure guide to the true working according to the rules of that science : representing the five orders, with their several doors & windows, taken from Inigo Jones & other celebrated architects : to each plate tables containing the exact proportions of the several parts are likewise fitted : very usefull to all true lovers of architecture but particularly so to those who are engaged in ye noble art of building
A builder's pattern book by William Halfpenny, printed in London in 1724 by Thomas and John Bowles, setting out the five orders with doors and windows after Inigo Jones for carpenters, masons and gentlemen builders. Copperplate line engravings pair an elevation with a keyed measured diagram, giving pediments, arched openings, panelled doors and rusticated piers usable as clean architectural line art.
