The student's instructor in drawing and working the five orders of architecture : Fully explaining the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings; for dimnishing and gluing of columns and capitals; for finding the true diameter of an order to any given height; for striking the ionic volute, circular or elliptical; with finished examples, on a large scale, of the orders, their planceers, &c. and some designs for door-cases. Elegantly engraved on thirty-three plates. With explanations. By Peter Nicholson, author of the carpenter's new guide.