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 dimnishing and gluing 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, &c. and some designs for door-cases. Elegantly engraved on thirty-three plates. With explanations. By Peter Nicholson, author of the carpenter's new guide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Orders.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv,29,[3]p.,33plates )

Other Title:

Student's instructor in drawing and working the five orders of architecture

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 56, High Holborn, 1705.

Notes:

With three final advertisement pages.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T181714.

OCLC:

509342230