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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?
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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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Marquand Library - Rare Books
NA2812 .R534 1787e Oversize
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Subject(s)
Architecture
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Bookseller
Nicol, G. (George)
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Former owner
Aylesford, Heneage Finch, Earl of, 1751-1812
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England
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19th century
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Notes
English and French in parallel columns.
Subscribers' list: p. [v]-[vi].
SAX copy: Bookplate: Earl of Aylesford, Packington, Warwicks.
Binding note
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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