The Mirror of Architecture: Or the Ground-rules of the art of Building. Exactly Laid Down by Vincent Scamozzi, . Whereby the Principal Points of Architecture are Easily and Plainly Demonstrated

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<sourceLibrary>British Library

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<Notes>The frontispiece includes: "With very large additions by other hands". Pp.17-39 contain "The description and use of an ordinary joynt-rule" by John Brown. The preface signed: R. M.

<imprintFull>London : printed for J. and B. Sprint, 1721. <collation>[8],111,[1]p.,plates : ill.,port. ; 4°