Erste Gründe der bürgerlichen Baukunst : in einem Zusammenhange und auf Verlangen entworfen
An 18th-century German architecture textbook, Erste Gründe der bürgerlichen Baukunst, written by Lorenz Johann Daniel Suckow and published in Jena in 1751 for students of domestic building. Its pictures are engraved plates of classical column orders, column bases and capitals, measured elevations, and a house section with a floor plan. A designer could draw on their crisp hairline linework, fine labelled diagrams, and the clear architectural proportions they set out.
