Practice of Architecture. Containing the Five Orders of Architecture, and an Additional Column and Entablature . for the Use of Carpenters and Practical Men

Published by Published by the Author, and Carter, Hendee & Co., Boston, 1833

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4to. 60 engraved plates (plate 55 bound out-of-order). vii, [1], [9]-116 pp. Contemporary speckled sheep, red morocco spine label; spine darkened, foxing throughout as usual First edition of Asher Benjamin's fifth book, after his full embrace of the Greek Revival. The plates illustrate the Greek orders in close detail, as well as frontispieces, porticoes, door, windows, cornices, stairs and various elements of carpentry and construction, and concludes with a complete plan of a church. Plate VII illustrates an order of Benjamin's invention that does not conform to any existing classical model, reasoning that "more than one half of all the columns and entablatures erected in country situations, for either internal or external finishings, belong neither to the Grecian nor Roman system." PROVENANCE: Wm. C. Taber, New Bedford (bookseller's ticket); William Reese (book-label)REFERENCE: Hitchcock 135.

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Title
Practice of Architecture. Containing the Five Orders of Architecture, and an Additional Column and Entablature . for the Use of Carpenters and Practical Men
Author
BENJAMIN, Asher
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Published by the Author, and Carter, Hendee & Co., Boston
Publication year
1833
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First edition.
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Bull’s Head Rare Books was established in 2020 by Alex Obercian after more than a dozen years in the New York City book trade. BHRB deals in rare books and manuscripts in all fields, with a specialty in literature, historic bindings, photography, music, science and medicine and country life pursuits — gardening, farming, landscape design, and animal husbandry. Member ABAA and ILAB.

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