The rudiments of architecture
Subtitle: being a treatise on practical geometry, on Grecian and Roman mouldings, shewing the best method of drawing their curves, with remarks on the effect of both : also, on the origin of building, and the five orders of architecture, on their general and particular parts and embellishments, with examples for cornices, base and surbase mouldings, architraves, and stairs : correctly engraved on thirty-four copperplates
By: by Asher Benjamin
Contributors: Wightman, Thomas; Snyder, Henry W., -1832?
Edition: 2nd ed., enl. with a plan and elevations of a church.
Publisher: R.P. & C. Williams
Published: 1820
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Architecture; Handbooks, manuals; Orders; Details
Notes: First published 1814.

Plates numbered 1-32, A-B; the last 3 double page. First 10 plates engraved by H.W. Snyder after Asher's drawings. Plate 16 signed by Thomas Wightman as engraver. Plate 32 also numbered 46.