THE ORDERS,
AND THEIR ÆSTHETIC PRINCIPLES.
BY
W. H. LEEDS, ESQ.
London:
JOHN WEALE,
ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, 59, HIGH HOLBORN.
M.DCCC.XLVIII.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||||
| The Orders generally | 3 | |||
| First Order: | Ancient Doric | 14 | ||
| Modern Do. | 25 | |||
| Tuscan | 28 | |||
| Second, or Voluted-capital, Order: | Greek Ionic | 30 | ||
| Roman and Modern | 46 | |||
| Third, or Foliaged-capital Order: | Corinthian | 53 | ||
| Composite | 62 | |||
| Columniation: Forms and Denominations | ||||
| of Temples and Porticoes | 68 | |||
| Intercolumniation | 77 | |||
| Glossarial Index | 82 | |||
It is important that an elementary treatise,—more particularly ifit profess to be a popular one, intended for the use of beginners aswell as for professional students,—should not only give rules, butexplain principles also; and unless the latter be clearly defined,the memory alone is exercised, perhaps fatigued, owing to the formerbeing unsupported by adequate reasoning. To confine instruction tobare matter-of-fact is not to simplify, much less to popularize it;since such mode entirely withholds all that explanation which is sonecessary for a beginner, who will else probably feel more disheartenedthan interested. Any study which is presented in its very driest formby being divested of all that imparts interest to the subject, willsoon become dry and uninteresting in itself, and prejudice may thus beexcited against it at the very outset.
Those who pursue the profession of Architecture must of course applythemselves to the study of it technically, and acquire their knowledgeof it, both theoretical and practical, by methods which partake more orless of routine instruction. Others neither will nor even can do so.If th