A Proposition For A New Order In Architecture, With Rules For Drawing the several Parts. By Henry Emlyn, of Windsor. The Second Edition, With The Addition Of Eleven Plates And The Explanation, Shewing the Intercolumniations and Arcades of the Composition, And how it is adapted to assemble with the Grecian and Roman orders; also, the Manner of placing it over the Doric, Ionic, Composite, and Corinthian Orders; with some concluding Remarks.
London;: Printed By J. Dixwell, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross,, M.DCC.LXXXIV.
Physical Description
[iv], iv, 11, [1], 24 p., 21 pl.; 559 mm. (Broadsheet).
Contents
[T.-p., dedic.] - To The Reader - Architecture - The Principal Parts Of This Composition [notes on pl. 1-9] - Introduction To The Second Edition - The Rule ... [notes on pl. 11-21] - Concluding Remarks On This Composition - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
Plate 2 is signed as engraved by Blake; pl. 11-17, 19-21, as engraved by Sparrow.
The work is dedicated by the author to the Royal Academicians and the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c.
A microfilm version was published in 2005 (Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary Source Microfilm [imprint of Thomson-Gale]).
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
18th-century marbled-papered boards; 20th-century half calf, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Emlyn's New System Of Architecture'.
Subject
Architecture - Architectural orders - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Essays - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century