A book of architecture, containing designs of buildings and ornaments

Gibbs, James, 1682-1754 · 1728 · London · 31 pictures

A book of architecture by James Gibbs, published in London in 1728, presenting designs of buildings and ornaments for an audience of architects, builders and patrons. Its pages are engraved plates of elevations, plans and sections, with the scale and drawing conventions of the period. These plates show clean measured line drawings of façades, floor plans and doorway ornaments, useful to a designer as references for symmetry, proportion and classical detail.

Architecture -- England -- 18th century · Architecture -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800 · Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800 · Neoclassicism (Architecture) -- England -- Early works to 1800 · Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- England -- Early works to 1800

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