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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1849 Excerpt: ... which are not unfrequently found to manifest themselves eve-H before the erection of a building is completed; in addition to the great expense attendant upon the work of restoration. An additional and important advantage resulting from the use of forms of this description is peculiar economy, and the cheapness with which they can be procured. In the use of stone in the arts of masonry, every individual feature is produced by the hand-work and chisel of the artisan, a slow and tedious process, involving great expense in the operation; and provided the quality of its material would admit, one which could only be justified by the necessity of every feature and part being different in proportion and configuration from each other. The very reverse of this, however, is found infallibly to hold in the case of architecture, since beauty and excellence, especially in those arts deemed nearest to perfection, is invariably the result of continual repetition of the exact counterparts of the same features. On the examination of any good specimen of the anciently derived arts, this repetition of parts will be found to prevail to a greater extent than might at first sight be apprehended. Columns, entablatures, cornices, buttresses, pinnacles, consoles, mouldings, window and door-dressings--in short, almost every ornamental feature--are necessarily many times repeated. Portability is another peculiar advantage of Forms of this description, not only as regards the rapidity with which the erection of edifices may be effected, but the facility with which they may be removed, by simply lifting them from off the hooks, or unscrewing the nuts, as cleansing or any other occasion may require. But while the principle of form in question has immediate reference to the production of ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781459053137
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459053133
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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