/ A CATALOGUE OF MODERN BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE, Theoretical, Practical, and Ornamental ; VIZ. BOOKS OF PLANS AND ELEVATIONS FOR COTTAGES, FARM-HOUSES, MANSIONS, TEMPLES, BRIDGES, Of Ornamentsfor internal Decorations y Foliage for Carvers, S(c. ON PERSPECTIVE. Books of Use for Carpenters, Bricklayers, and WORKMEN IN GENERAL, Which, with the best ANCIENT AUTHORS, are constantly on SALE at J. TAYLOR’S ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY. No. 59, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON. WHERE MAY BE HAD, The WORKS of the most celebrated FRENCH ARCHITECTS and ENGINEERS. A CATALOGUE, j-c. T he Antiquities of Athens \ measured and delineated, by James Stuart^ F. R. S. and F. S. A. and Nicholas Re^vett^ Painters and Architects, in four large Volumes Folio, Price 25/. 4^. in boards . — This IFork contains 384 Plates ^ engransed by the best Artists j of VienxjSt Architecture, Plans, &c. njoith Letter-press, Historical and Descriptive, illustrating by a Research of many Years' Labour and great Expense, the purest Examples of Grecian Architecture, many of vohich no longer exist, and the Traces of them can be found only in this Work. Contents of the Work. Doric Portico at Athens, Ionic T ?mple on the Ilissus, Octagon Toiver of Andronicus Cyrrestes, Lanthorn of Demosthenes, Stoa, or Portico at Athens : And a large Vievo oj the Acropolis. Temple of Minerva, Temple of Erectheus, Theatre of Bacchus, Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus, &c. Propylea: And a large Fievo, and a Plan of the Acropolis. 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