A new treatise of architecture, according to Vitruvius : wherein is discoursed of the five orders of columns ...
A 1669 London treatise on architecture by Julien Mauclerc, printed by J. Darby, presenting the classical column orders after Vitruvius for builders and students of design. The engraved plates show full column elevations with detailed capitals, bases and shafts, alongside small geometric diagrams of volutes and fan-shaped sections, offering a designer precise classical ornament and proportional studies to adapt for lettering frames, borders and decorative motifs.
