The rudiments of architecture or, The young workman's instructor. [electronic resource] : In two parts. Part first, containing the five orders of columns entire, with frontispieces, doors, windows, porticoes, intercolumniations, and arcades, suited to each; rustic doors and windows; block and cantaliver cornices; ru...; quoins; the manner of constructing brick and stone arches; centuring for groins and vaulting; stairs, twisted rails, roofs and domes; inspectional scales, tables, &c. Directions for drawing plans and elevations with Indian ink. Likewise, the French and Spanish orders. Part second, containing geometry; the mensuration of solids and superficies; plain trigonometry, and surveying of land. With twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in North Britain. To which is added, The builder's dictionary: included for those whose time will not allow them to attend teachers. The third edition, corrected. Illustrated with upwards of three hundred and seventy-three examples, accurately engraven upon fifty large copper-plates.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Building--Early works to 1800.

Building.

Genre:

Primers (Instructional books).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii,[1],127,[1],6,[16]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Rudiments of architecture or, The young workman's instructor

Place of Publication:

Dundee : printed for G. Milen, bookseller, Dundee; Vernor and Hood, London; J. Dickson, J. Fairbairn, P. Hill and Mundel & Son, Ediburgh; J. Duncan & Son, Brash & Reid and J. Murdoch, Glasgow; W. Coke. And W. Reid, Leith; A. Brown and J. Burnet, Aberdeen; and I. Forsyth, Elgin, M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]

Notes:

With eight final leaves of builder's dictionary.

Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N13161.

OCLC:

507971866