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An essay on the study and practice of architecture : Explaining the true principles of the science; And Directing the Gentleman and Builder to design and finish in every Article, with Judgment and Taste. Illustrated with figures, elegantly engraved, explaining the Five Orders, their several Parts, and just Proportions. With a Frontispiece, designed by Mr. Wale, and curiously engraved. To which are added, directions for the embellishment of cities, and for the laying out of gardens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laugier, Marc-Antoine, 1711-1769.
- Standardized Title:
- Essai sur l'architecture. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi,[2],272,[8]p.,plates )
- Other Title:
- Essay on the study and practice of architecture.
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for Stanley Crowder and Henry Woodgate, at the Golden-Ball in Pater-Noster-Row, 1756.
- Notes:
- Anonymous. By Marc Antoine Laugier.
- Horizontal chain lines.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N1527.
- OCLC:
- 642143450
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