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The theory and practice of architecture : or, Vitruvius and Vignola abridg'd
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- the first, by the famous Mr. Perrault, of the Royal academy of sciences in France, and carefully done into English [by Abel Boyer] ; and the other by Joseph Moxon
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- English
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- And now accurately publish'd the fifth time
- London : printed for R. Wellington, at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1703
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- 1 preliminary leaf 6 unnumbered pages, 72 pages, 11 plates. 1 preliminary leaf, 5 unnumbered, 16-80, 50 plates
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- ocm11195364
- Engr. title-page.
- Vignola: or, the Compleat architect, has separate title-page which continues: Shewing, in a plain and easy way, the rules of the five orders in architecture, viz Tuscan, Dorick, Ionic, Corinthian and composite. Whereby, any that can but read, and understand English, may readily learn the proportions that all members in a building have one unto another. Set forth by Mr. James Barazzio of Vignola. Translated into English, by Joseph Moxon. The fifth edition, with additions ... London, Printed for R. Wellington, at the Dolphin and Crown in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1702.
- Park's note: Moxon also published his Barozzio translation separately as Vignola: or the Compleat architect. She gives no date for the first edition of this work.