L'architecture, contenant la toscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque, et composee
A 1628 Amsterdam architectural treatise by Hans Vredeman de Vries, published by Ian Janssen, setting out the five classical orders: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Its plates are engraved and printed on the page, with labels and lettering on the drawings. A designer might take from them the clean line-drawn profiles of cornices, capitals and column bases, with the bold scroll and acanthus forms of the capitals and the lettered, measured layouts that show how each order was built up.
