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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
The rudiments of architecture or, The young workman's instructor
:
In two parts. Part first, containing the five orders of columns entire, with frontispieces, doors, windows, porticoes, intercolumniations, and arcades, suited to each; rustic doors and windows; block and cantaliver cornices; ru...; quoins; the manner of constructing brick and stone arches; centuring for groins and vaulting; stairs, twisted rails, roofs and domes; inspectional scales, tables, &c. Directions for drawing plans and elevations with Indian ink. Likewise, the French and Spanish orders. Part second, containing geometry; the mensuration of solids and superficies; plain trigonometry, and surveying of land. With twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in North Britain. To which is added, The builder's dictionary: included for those whose time will not allow them to attend teachers. The third edition, corrected. Illustrated with upwards of three hundred and seventy-three examples, accurately engraven upon fifty large copper-plates
Published:
Dundee: printed for G. Milen, bookseller, Dundee; Vernor and Hood, London; J. Dickson, J. Fairbairn, P. Hill and Mundel & Son, Ediburgh; J. Duncan & Son, Brash & Reid and J. Murdoch, Glasgow; W. Coke. And W. Reid, Leith; A. Brown and J. Burnet, Aberdeen; and I. Forsyth, Elgin, M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]
Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
Reproduction series:
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Type of reproduction:
Online-Ausg.
Place of reproduction:
Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
Reproduction note:
Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
Origination:
Footnote:
English Short Title Catalog, N13161
Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland
With eight final leaves of builder's dictionary