Rudimentary Architecture: For the Use of Beginners, and Students; The Orders, and Their Aesthetic Principles (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William Henry Leeds

9780332506470: Rudimentary Architecture: For the Use of Beginners, and Students; The Orders, and Their Aesthetic Principles (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0332506479 ISBN 13: 9780332506470

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

View all copies of this ISBN edition

0 Used

2 New

From US$ 35.13

Excerpt from Rudimentary Architecture: For the Use of Beginners, and Students; The Orders, and Their Aesthetic Principles

As prefaces are very seldom read, the above escapade will probably escape all but those who will be far too discreet to take any notice of 1t. And as prefaces are usually ignored, it is chieﬂy for form sake here stated, that excepting the additional chapters on Supercolumniation, and Anthropom orphie Pillars, this edition is nearly a reprint of the first one. It is indeed f arther. Augmented by an Appendix containing two or three detached articles, which, if not exactly in keeping with the character of an Elementary' Treatise - as it must be con fesse'd, is the case, they being in themselves more or less polemical, disquisitorial, and critical' do not at all interfere 'with the Treatise itself. Besides which it is to'be hoped that those who shall not merely have perused, but carefully studied what 13 said of the Orders,' will be prepared for comprehend ing and taking an interest in the more discursive criticism which has been here thrown into the shape of an Appendix.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.