An improved and enlarged edition of Biddle's young carpenter's assistant : being a complete system of architecture for carpenters, joiners, and workmen in general, adapted to the style of building in the United States ; revised and corrected, with several additional articles, and forty-eight new designs, chiefly of full size, working drawings of modern finish, in detail ; particularly adapted for country use (1833)
Biddle, Owen, Haviland, John, 1792-1852 · Philadelphia : M'Carty & Davis, 171 Market Street · leaf 176
PLATK 03. … INSERT FOLDOUT HERE A DICTIONARY TERMS USED IN ARCHITECTURK ABA—BALA. ABACUS, the upper member of a column, whichserves as a covering to the capital; to the Tuscan,Doric, and Ionic,*it is square; to the modern Ionicand Corinthian, each side is arched, or cut inwards,and is decorated in the centre…
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