Vignola: or, the compleat architect. : Shewing, in a plain and easy way, the rules of the five orders in architecture, viz. Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian and composite. Whereby, any that can but read and understand English, may readily learn the proportions that all members in a building have one unto another. Set forth by Mr. James Barazzio of Vignola. Translated into English, by Joseph Moxon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vignola, 1507-1573.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Orders.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

7 unnumbered pages,16-80 pages,plates : illustrations ; 8⁰

Edition:

The fifth edition, with additions.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for R. Wellington, at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1702.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Issued with 'The theory and practice of architecture; or Vitruvius and Vignola abridg'd .. ', 1703.

With 51 numbered plates [no.32 occurs twice], of which numbers I-XXXII are included in the pagination.

Gatherings unsigned after sig. A.

The explanation of plate XXI is misnumbered XXII.

The second plate numbered XXXII (facing p.80) is printed upside down.

Plates XVII-XXIV are printed in reverse order (the description of plate XVIII is opposite plate XXIV etc.).

Pp.56, 57, 60, 61, & 64 are misnumbered 54, 55, 62, 63, and 66 respectively.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T50790.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.