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Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · 1915 · New York & London. Harper & Bros · 14 pictures

An introductory architecture primer by Frank Edwin Wallis, published in New York and London by Harper & Brothers in 1915, written for beginners learning the basic vocabulary of building design. Its pictures are plain line drawings of arcades, with each arcade labelled and its column parts, from base to capital, named in a diagram. A designer could take from them clean, simple linework for showing arch and column structure, and the classical orders as a reference for column proportions.

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