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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 merits of_ Vitruvius, _and the
Excellencies of his Works_.                                 Page 1.

  Art. 2. _Of the method of the Works of_ Vit