Appleton's cyclopædia of drawing, designed as a textbook for the mechanic, architect, engineer, and surveyor (1866)
Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed, Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1866. D. Appleton & co.) [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 400
12° to 13°, or a mean between the two proportions, and acrcording to Ferguson, more pleasing than either; although having more loftyspires, yet the English construction is much more massive in appearance,than the Continental; the apertures are less numerous, and the surfaces areless cut up, and… … AKCHITECTURAL DRAWING. 2G9 rather tlian stone. In cast iron, the same effect would be obtained at a lesscost, and equally durable with stone. Sometimes the central spires of the tower were omitted; each of thepinnacles at the angles being converted as it were into spires. Sometimesthe tower is…
