A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture, illustrated by four hundred and forty woodcuts
A glossary of architectural terms by John Henry Parker, published in Oxford in 1846 for students and builders, with its terms illustrated by woodcuts of Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic building details. The pictures show engraved close-ups of a carved capital, a clustered pier with a pointed arch, a traceried window head, and a quatrefoil rose set in a gabled hood with grotesque label stops. A designer could take from them the vocabulary and construction of Gothic ornament, such as foliage capitals, tracery patterns and moulded arch profiles.
