The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 19
e just as well and even better, besides being cheaper in the end—■are admissible as embellishments on such occasions: but to have amere crowd and mob of such things does not argue the most eleganttaste. What is squandered away by some persons in a season or two,in temporary and trumpery… … The size of (lie volute being first determined, tlie deptli A B is di-vided into 12 equal parts; from tlie seventli part draw tlie right lineE F, as shown in diagram; tiien number li parts at the top of the volutefrom A, and draw a line at right angles with E F, which will give theeye of the…
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