The rudiments of ancient architecture, in two parts : containing an historical account of the five orders, with their proportions and examples of each from the antiques : also Vitruvius on the temples and intercolumniations, &c. of the ancients ... : with a dictionary of terms : illustrated with ten plates
A students' primer on classical architecture published by I. & J. Taylor's Architectural Library in London in 1789, with ten engraved plates by James Basire, written for apprentices and builders learning the five orders from antique examples. The plates are measured line-and-tone elevations of columns and entablatures \u2014 Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian \u2014 each with a marginal scale of proportions and a graduated ruler bar, giving designers precise profiles, mouldings, capitals and modular diagrams to trace or recombine.
