Architecture - Orders - Early works to 1800

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Vignola revived Wherein is shewn The True and most Elegant Proportions of the five orders, As laid down by that Great Master: Illustrated by Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven designs of Palaces and other Magnificent Buildings, Executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere; Neatly Engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates, adapted Not only to the General Use of architecture, but herein Particular Subjects are treated with the greatest Accuracy, viz. The Five Orders; Columns, Symbolical, &c. &c. Doors, Windows, Niches, &c. Cornishes, French and Italian; Ballustrades, Mosaic Work, Mouldings, &c. Sections of Rooms, with Designs for Furniture; Ornamental Iron-Work for various Purposes; Temples, Grotto's, and Summer Retreats, for Parks, Gardens, &c. Plan, Elevations, and Sections of the Castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a Church, Pallaces, &c. With many other Particulars relative to the Art of Building.
Vignola, 1507-1573.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]
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The grecian orders of architecture . Delineated and explained from the antiquities of Athens. Also the parallels of the orders of Palladio Scamozzi and Vignola. To which are added Remarks concerning publick and private edifices with designs.
Stephen RiouDate: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
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The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs or the art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on One Hundred and Eighty-Six Copper-Plates, for Piers, Gates, Doors, Windows, Niches, Buffets, Cisterns, Chimney-Pieces, Tabernacle-Frames, Pavements, Frets, Gulochi's, Pulpits, Types, Altar-Pieces, Monuments, Fonts, Obelisques, Pedestals, for Sun-Dials, Busto's, and Stone Tables, Book Cases, Cielings, and Iron Works. Proportioned by Aliquot Parts. With an Appendix of Fourteen Plates of Trusses for Girders and Beams, different Sorts of Rafters, and a Variety of Roofs, &c. To which are prefixed, The Five Orders of Columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose Members are proportioned by Aliquot Parts, in a more easy Manner than has yet been done. The Whole interspersed With sure Rules for working all the Varieties of Raking Members in Pediments, Modillions, &c. The like, for the immediate Use of Workmen, never published before, in any Language. By B.L.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1770
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A dissertation upon the orders of columns , and their appendages; the whole constituting the Orders of Architecture: Interspersed with A brief Account of the various Kinds of intercolumnation Observed by the Antients: and Illustrated with proper Draughts from three and Twenty Copper Plates Engraved by Mr. Paul Fourdrinier. Compiled For the Use of Artificers in the Building Trades. By John Wood, Architect.
Wood, John, 1705?-1754.Date: 1750
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Gothic architecture decorated. Consisting of a large collection of temples, banqueting, summer and green houses; ... Likewise designs of the Gothic orders, with their proper ornaments, and rules for drawing them. The whole engraved on twelve copper plates. Designed by P. Decker, ..
Decker, PaulDate: 1759