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001 $ 04/3190
003 $ UK-LoRAA
100 1 # $a Aikin
245 1 3 $a An Essay On The Doric Order Of Architecture, Containing A Historical View Of Its Rise And Progress Among The Ancients, With A Critical Investigation Of Its Principles Of Composition And Adaptation To Modern Use. $b Illustrated By Figures Of The Principal Antique Examples, Drawn To One Scale, From The Best Authorities, By Edmund Aikin, Architect.
260 # # $b Published By The London Architectural Society. $a London.: $b Printed By T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; And Sold By J. Taylor, At The Architectural Library, No 59, High Holborn. $c 1810.
300 # # $a [4], 23, [1] p., 7 pl. (1 fold.): $c 544 mm.
505 # # $a [T.p.] - Notice [advertisement by the London Architectural Society] - [Text]; [colophon] - [Plates].
508 # # $a The plates are unsigned.

Each plate carries the imprint of J. Taylor.

The colophon repeats the name of the printer, T. Bensley.
510 0 # $a RIBA, Early printed, I (1994), 39.

J.M. Crook, The Greek Revival (rev. ed. 1995); J.S. Curl, Georgian architecture (1993); M. McMordie, 'Picturesque pattern books and pre-Victorian designers', in Architectural history, 18 (1975), p.44-60.
520 2 # $a The plates include 31 outline figures. The majority compare ancient examples of the Doric order, as recorded by Stuart and Revett, the Society of Dilettanti's 'Antiquities of Ionia', Wilkins's 'Magna Graecia' and Desgodetz, all drawn to the same scale (which is given on Plate I). In figures 21-23 Aikin offers his own suggestions for adaptating the order to modern situations. The Essay includes 'A Table of the Proportions of the Examples contained in the Plates'.
561 # # $a Presented by the London Architectural Society in 1811 (see RA Council Minutes, IV, 276).
563 # # $a 19th-century half calf, brown cloth-covered boards; black morocco spine-label lettered 'Aikin's Essay On The Doric Order', spine lettered 'R.A.' and '1810'.
653 # # $a Architecture, Greek - Doric order - Columns, Doric - History
653 # # $a Greek Revival - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Essays - Pattern books - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Bensley $e printer
700 1 # $a Taylor $e bookseller
710 2 # $a London Architectural Society $e publisher
710 2 # $a Taylor's Architectural Library (London) $e bookseller
852 8 # $d 1821: Y-0-14.