Los diez libros de archîtectura de M. Vitruvio Polión
A Spanish printed edition of Vitruvius's architectural treatise, issued in Madrid by the Imprenta Real in 1787 for students and builders of classical architecture. Its plates give elevations, plans and cross-sections of Roman temples and their columns, drawn in fine black line on plain paper. A designer could take from them the clean geometry of classical orders, pediments and column bases as a reference for rules-based layouts and symmetrical frames.
