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A treatise of the 5 orders of columns in architecture, viz. toscan... wherein the proportions and characters of the members of their several pedestals,... are distinctly consider'd,... engraven on 6 folio pl. ... adorn'd with 24 borders,... and a like number of tail-pieces by John Sturt / written in French by Claude Perrault... ; made English by John James of Greenwich
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DEDICATION.

Cjreat Monarch under whoni we live , and of the hasp Age Wthave the good Fortune to be born in. *But what more particu-larly obliges me to inform the World that a Wor\fo apparentlyuseful was done by Your Lordships Order , is the Hope 1 havethat the Tublic , who will receive the benefit of it> will alsoafftjl me to acknowledge part of the Obligation due from me toYour Lordship , for having been pleas d to trujlme with a Worf^of this Importance : there being nothing in the World I moreardently desire than to give your Lordship Troofs of that pro*found ( R{/peB with which I am^ y{

My LORD,

ToUr Lordship's mojl humble ,and most obedient SerVant,

PERRAULT.