The first & chief groundes of architecture
John Shute's 1563 treatise on classical architecture, reprinted in London by Country Life in 1912 with an editorial introduction by Lawrence Weaver, and aimed at builders and students learning the orders. The pictures are small woodcut diagrams of columns labelled with Greek names such as Diastylos, Eustylos and Sistylos, each with numbered module scales and a plan of the column base, showing a clear, measured method a designer could reuse for proportion studies.
