The new and improved practical builder
Nicholson, Peter 1765-1844
The new and improved practical builder The five orders of architecture; containing the most plain and simple rules for drawing and executing them in the purest style; for the use of workmen; exhibiting the most approved modes of applying each in practice, suitably to the climate of Great Britain. Including an historical description of gothic architecture, illustrated with specimens selected from the most celebrated structures now existing, and numerous plans, elevations, sections, and details of various buildings, executed by architects of Great eminence. To which are added, treatises on projection, perspective, fractions, decimal arithmetic, &c. in order to assist the student in drawing architectural objects, concluding with an index and glossary of the terms of art, &c. Illustrated by numerous engravings by artists of the first talent - London Thomas Kelly M.DCCC.XXXVII. [1837] - 3v. plates 4o
Great Britain--1707-
The new and improved practical builder The five orders of architecture; containing the most plain and simple rules for drawing and executing them in the purest style; for the use of workmen; exhibiting the most approved modes of applying each in practice, suitably to the climate of Great Britain. Including an historical description of gothic architecture, illustrated with specimens selected from the most celebrated structures now existing, and numerous plans, elevations, sections, and details of various buildings, executed by architects of Great eminence. To which are added, treatises on projection, perspective, fractions, decimal arithmetic, &c. in order to assist the student in drawing architectural objects, concluding with an index and glossary of the terms of art, &c. Illustrated by numerous engravings by artists of the first talent - London Thomas Kelly M.DCCC.XXXVII. [1837] - 3v. plates 4o
Great Britain--1707-