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). Seller Inventory # 38645

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Title: Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of ...

Publisher: London, Printed by W Bowyer for the Author 1732

Binding: Hardcover

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RS Jericho Trading Limited
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