The rudiments of architecture : being a treatise on practical geometry, on Grecian and Roman mouldings, shewing the best method of drawing their curves, with remarks on the effect of both : also, on the origin of building, and the five orders of architecture, on their general and particular parts and embellishments, with examples for cornices, base and surbase mouldings, architraves, and stairs : correctly engraved on thirty-four copperplates
Asher Benjamin's 1820 Boston treatise on architecture, issued by R.P. & C. Williams for carpenters and builders learning practical geometry and classical design. Its copperplate engravings show mouldings and cornice profiles drawn in clean outline; a designer might take their crisp profiles and the Doric column study with its capital and entablature.
