Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture . in a More Exact and Easy Manner by Which All Fractions, in Dividing the Principal Members and Their Parts, Are Avoided.

GIBBS James

Published by London, Printed by W Bowyer for the Author 1732

About this Item

42pp, 64 plates 43x28, leather spine, boards Boards very worn, spine missing large pieces, binding loosening, damp marks on most pages, pencil margin marks on most images, ink spots and other marks throughout, edges worn, small closed tears on bottom edges of several pages, complete but only fair thus; could make a nice restoration project. Gibbs was one of several architects concerned with the difficulties architects and builders had in accurately using Palladio's fractions when translated to stone and wood. His system of dividing the different orders into parts was much easier for workmen to follow, and quickly became popular (it was copied almost immediately by Langley, Hoppus and others in their works, which remained widely used well into the next century).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture . in a More Exact and Easy Manner by Which All Fractions, in Dividing the Principal Members and Their Parts, Are Avoided.
• Publisher: London, Printed by W Bowyer for the Author 1732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • ARCHITECTURE