Claude Perrault, John James, John Sturt
Printed by Benj. Motte, 1708.
Binding : newly bound in half leather with buff boards and impressed titles.
Architecture
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12303. A Treatise of Five Orders of Columns in Architecture.
Viz Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Wherein the Proportions and Characters of the Members of their several Pedestals, Columns and Entablatures, are distinctly consider'd with respect to the Practice of the Antients and Moderns, also a most Natural and Easie and Practicable Method laid down for determining the most minute Part in all the Orders, without a Fraction. To which is annex'd a Discourse concerning Pilasters: and of several Abuses introduc'd into Architecture. Engraven on Six Folio Plates of the several Orders, adorn'd with Twenty-Four Borders, as many Initial Letters, and a like number of Tail-Pieces by John Sturt.
Claude Perrault, John James, John Sturt Printed by Benj. Motte, 1708. |
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Folio. Contents : Frontispiece
engraving, Dedication, List of Subscribers, Preface, xxi, Table of Chapters,
the Five Orders, 7 full page engravings, many delightful vignette engravings
at chapter heads and to decorate capitals, 131pp, Errata, Books and Plates
engraven and sold by John Sturt, 3pp.
Binding : newly bound in half leather with buff boards and impressed titles.
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Condition : small area of variable dampstaining (see images below) affecting the bottom right corner of the pages, occasional finger marks, paper of frontispiece engraving a little dulled, very small tear to the tops of 3 pages, otherwise very good. |
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Price : £1200
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