The grecian orders of architecture : delineated and explained from the antiquities of Athens : also the parallels of the orders of Palladio, Scamozzi and Vignola to which are added remarks concerning publick and private edifices with designs (1768)
Riou, Stephen · printed by J. Dixwell · leaf 13
P R E F ACE . 4 LTHO ’ the skill and diligence of so many ingenious men , for above these two last centuries , have been excited to retrieve the architecture of the antients , and restore it in its original purity and beauty , neither they who had formed precepts for this purpose from the writings…
