An attempt to discriminate the styles of architecture in England : from the Conquest to the Reformation ; with a sketch of the Grecian and Roman orders /by the late Thomas Rickman (1881)
Rickman, Thomas, 1776-1841, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896, Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, Mackenzie, Frederick, 1787 or 8-1854, Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon, 1799-1869, Starling, William Francis, Hacker, C., 19th cent, Carter, James, 1798-1855, Wilkinson, W. S, Smith, C. B · London : Parker and Co. · leaf 149
base,and what is used not onlyto shafts, but sometimesas a base tablet, is curi-ous, from its likeness tothe Grecian attic base : likethat, it consists of tworounds, with a hollow be-tween, and that hollow isoften deepened, so that ifwater gets into it the waterremains, and it is almostthe only… … 1200.