A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture
Sir William Chambers's treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture, first issued in 1759 and reprinted in London by Lockwood in 1862 with notes by Joseph Gwilt and W. H. Leeds, for architects and building students. Engraved plates give measured elevations, plans and profiles of the five orders, capitals, mouldings, arcades and doorcases, usable as line ornament, diagram templates or classical detail.
