A treatise on the five orders of architecture : in which the principles of that art are illustrated by elegant and correct examples, representing the most approved forms, proportions, and decorations, peculiar to the several orders : as exhibited in the remains of the beautiful edifices of antiquity : composed in the style most consonant to the orders that adorn the magnificent temples, baths, theatres, amphitheatres, basilicas, triumphal arches, and other ancient buildings : containing twenty-two plates engraved in acquatinta, producing the spirit and effect of finished drawings in Indian ink : with complete explanations in English and French, accompanied with observations made on several of the antiquities at Rome, and various parts of Italy, at Pola in Istria, and the southern provinces of France, in the years 1760, 1761, 1762, and 1763 / by George Richardson, architect = Traité des cinq ordres d'architecture ... / par George Richardson, architecte.

Author
Richardson, George, 1736?-1817? [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • French
Published/​Created
London : Printed for the author, no. 105, Great Titchfield-Street, and sold by Mr. George Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, no. 58, Pall-Mall, MDCCLXXXVII [1787].
Description
x, 32, [2] p., xxii leaves of plates : ill. (aquatints) ; 58 cm. (1⁰)

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    • English and French in parallel columns.
    • Subscribers' list: p. [v]-[vi].
    • SAX copy: Bookplate: Earl of Aylesford, Packington, Warwicks.
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    SAX copy: In contemporary marbled boards with plain tan paper spine.
    Place name(s)
    England London.
    Other title(s)
    Traité des cinq ordres d'architecture
    LCCN
    12003587
    OCLC
    4607860
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