A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture : exemplified by seventeen hundred woodcuts
A glossary of architectural terms compiled by John Henry Parker and published at Oxford in 1850, illustrated with woodcuts covering Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic building for students and antiquaries. The pictures are plate-style engravings of architectural members: columns, buttresses, a pier of stepped mouldings, and arched doorways with carved tympana and orders. A designer could draw on their clear, measured profiles of columns, arches and portals for period ornament and structural rhythm.
