Transcriber’s Notes: Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_ in the original text. Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals. Illustrations have been moved so they do not break up paragraphs. The advertisement for the book “ARCHITECTURE OF THE METROPOLIS” has been moved from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. RUDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE: FOR THE USE OF BEGINNERS. THE ORDERS, AND THEIR ÆSTHETIC PRINCIPLES. BY W. H. LEEDS, ESQ. London: JOHN WEALE, ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, 59, HIGH HOLBORN. M.DCCC.XLVIII. CONTENTS. PAGE The Orders generally 3 First Order: Ancient Doric 14 Modern Do. 25 Tuscan 28 Second, or Voluted-capital, Order: Greek Ionic 30 Roman and Modern 46 Third, or Foliaged-capital Order: Corinthian 53 Composite 62 Columniation: Forms and Denominations of Temples and Porticoes 68 Intercolumniation 77 Glossarial Index 82 PREFACE. It is important that an elementary treatise,—more particularly if it profess to be a popular one, intended for the use of beginners as well as for professional students,—should not only give rules, but explain principles also; and unless the latter be clearly defined, the memory alone is exercised, perhaps fatigued, owing to the former being unsupported by adequate reasoning. To confine instruction to bare matter-of-fact is not to simplify, much less to popularize it; since such mode entirely withholds all that explanation which is so necessary for a beginner, who will else probably feel more disheartened than interested. Any study which is presented in its very driest form by being divested of all that imparts interest to the subject, will soon become dry and uninteresting in itself, and prejudice may thus be excited against it at the very outset.