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Ornamental drawing, and architectural design. With notes, historical and practical. Upwards of 200 illustrations

Burn, Robert Scott · 1857 · London, Ward and Lock · 30 pictures

Ornamental drawing and architectural design, a mid-nineteenth-century London manual from Ward and Lock by Robert Scott Burn, illustrated with over two hundred figures for students and practising builders. The pictures are line diagrams of plans, Gothic tracery layouts, geometric construction lines and a carved acanthus-style leaf capital, giving a designer clear models of ornament structure and historical motif.

Architecture · Decoration and ornament

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