A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture (1888)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · London [etc.] Parker and co. · leaf 211
pillar- 199 a small circular shaft in each of the recesses, and a larger one, semicircular, on two (or on each) of the faces : most of the compound pillars partake of this arrangement, though other varieties are by no means rare.
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