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The student's instructor in drawing and working : the five orders of architecture : fully explaining the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings, for diminishing and glueing of columns and capitals, for finding the true diameter of an order to any given height, for striking the ionic volute, circular or elliptical, with finished examples, on a large scale, of the orders, their planceers, etc. and some designs for door-cases (1837)

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844 · New York : Office of the Railroad Journal · leaf 36

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methods have inconveniences whichcannot be avoided ; by the former method the last joints cannot be rubbed together be-cause of the tapering of the stave, but if it is glued quickly, it will be pretty soundby the latter method there is an uncertainty of the blockings being sound. Note.—The grain of… … TUSCAN ORDER.Plate 9.

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