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.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | 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] |
| Description | vii, 1 unnumbered page, 127, 1 unnumbered page, 6, 16 unnumbered pages, plates ; 4⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| General note | With eight final leaves of builder's dictionary. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from National Library of Scotland. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, N13161. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
| Genre/form | Primers (Instructional books) |
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