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Title: An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius
Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author

Author: Vitruvius

Editor: Perrault

Release Date: January 24, 2009 [EBook #27877]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ARCHITECTVRE 1692]

AN
ABRIDGMENT
OF THE
ARCHITECTURE
OF
VITRUVIUS.

CONTAINING

A System of the whole WORKS
of that Author.

Illustrated with divers Copper Plates, curiously
engraved; with a Table of Explanation,
To which is added in this Edition

The Etymology and Derivation of the
Terms used in _Architecture_.

First done in _French_ by Monsr _Perrault_, of the
Academy of _Paris_, and now _Englished_, with Additions.

_LONDON_: Printed for _Abel Small_ and _T. Child_,
at the _Unicorn_ in St. _Paul_'s Church-yard. 1692.

A

TABLE

OF THE

CHAPTERS.

The Introduction.

Article 1. _Of the great