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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1908 



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Detail Working Drawings of the Five 

 Orders of Architecture. By James 

 T. Ball, architect. ("Portfolio Edition.") 

 One large portfolio; 17 plates, with de- 

 scriptive text; size, 14x21 inches. New 

 York: William T. Comstock. Price, 

 post paid, $4.00. 



This work, as far as we know, gives the 

 Orders and their details on a larger scale 

 than any other work on the orders hereto- 

 fore published. 



The unit of measurement used by the au- 

 thor, instead of the "moduli" adopted in Vig- 

 nola and other works on the "Five Orders," 

 is the "Diameter of the Column," to which 

 all other parts are proportioned. To facilitate 

 its use a plate is devoted to diagrams of scales 

 for various column diameters. In addition to 

 this, in the descriptive text will be found a 

 table for the use of the ordinary architect's 

 scale. To this matter of scales the author 

 has given much attention, as will be seen by 

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The drawings, as we have mentioned, are 

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In laying out these drawings the author has 

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The work has been prepared with the ut- 

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In handling the subject the author has on 

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