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ABC/120 · [c1890]
Part of Architectural Books Collection
An Elementary Architecture Treaty including the Complete Study of the Five Orders (Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Composite), the Shadow Trails and the First Principles of Construction. The work is divided into seventy-six plates illustrating these subjects with elevations, sections, and plans, most of them with measurements at scale. The Five Orders are studies very closely with plates covering each of the architectural elements that have their specific features: cornices, friezes, architraves, capitals, shafts, doors, windows, vaults, and attics. Buildings included: Fortuna Virile Temple; Corinthian Temple; Door from Farnese Palace, Rome; Door of Pantheon, Rome. Esquié, Pierre Joseph (1853-1933), architect
ABC/121 · 1896
Part of Architectural Books Collection
A hand drawn pictorial collection of Gothic Wood Carving. Each subject has a short description of the drawings, some have a scale bar and detail notes. Subjects included are: Bosses-Kent; Capital-Peterborough Cathedral; Cresting-Leicester; Crockets, Ely Cathedral, St. Margaret, St. Peter Permountergate, Westminster Abbey, St. Andrew, St. Lawrence, SS Simon and Jude, St. Andrew; Door Heads- St. Lawrence, SS Simon and Jude; Enriched Cusps-St. Nicholas, St. Peter Permountergate, All Saints Mackworth, St. Michael Kirk Langley, All Saints Breadsall, St. Margaret Paston, St. Lawrence Norwhich, SS. Simon and Jude, St. Andrew Gatton; Misereres-Ely Cathedral, Henry VII Chapel; Moulding Enrichments-Peterborough Cathedral, St. Andrew Gatton, St. Peter Hascombe, St. Michael Kirk Langley, Lincoln Cathedral, St. Mary Magdalene; Panel Enrichments-St. Lawrence, All Saints Mackworth, All Saints Breadsall, St. Andrew Radbourne, St. Michael Kirk Langley, St. Mary Chaddesden, SS. Simon and Jude, Haddon Hall Derbyshire, South Kensington Museum; Panels-All Saints Mackworth, All Saints Breadsall, St. Nicholas Kings Lynn, All Saints WItley, St. Botolph Trunch, St. Marys Chaddesden, St. Andrews Radbourne, South Kensington Museum, St. Michael Kirk Langley. St. Andrew Gatton, Langley Hall Derbyshire, Haddon Hall Derbyshire; Pinnacles-Westminster Abbey, St. Andrew Gatton, St. Margaret King's Lynn; Poppy Heads-Lincoln Cathedral, St. Nicholas Kings Lynn, All Saints Witley, St. Botolph Trunch, St. Margaret Norwhich; Spandarels-St. Nicholas Kings Lynn, Westminster Abbey, All Saints Mackworth, St. Botolph Trunch, St. Mary Chaddesden, St. Nicholas North Walsham. Crallan, Franklyn Arden