A General Treatise Of Architecture. In Five Books. ... By John Aheron, Architect

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T014870 With a list of subscribers. Books IV and V consists wholly of plates with letterpress titlepages. The final unnumbered sequence comprises 'the builder's dictionary' and two leaves of contents. Dublin: printed for the author, by John Butler, 1754. viii,110,8, [2], [2], [16]p., plates; 2?9781379791157

• • Author: John Aheron
• • Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
• • Publication Date: Apr 19, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 258 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1379791154
• • ISBN-13: 9781379791157