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     _ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOKS OF ART HISTORY_
                  _OF ALL AGES_

                  ARCHITECTURE
          CLASSIC AND EARLY CHRISTIAN

    BY PROFESSOR T. ROGER SMITH, F.R.I.B.A.

                      AND

         JOHN SLATER, B.A., F.R.I.B.A.




  [Illustration: THE PARTHENON AT ATHENS, AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF
      PERICLES, _circa_ B.C. 438.]




         _ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOKS OF ART HISTORY_

                      ARCHITECTURE

               CLASSIC AND EARLY CHRISTIAN

              BY T. ROGER SMITH, F.R.I.B.A.
   _Professor of Architecture, University Coll. London_

                           AND

              JOHN SLATER, B.A., F.R.I.B.A.


        [Illustration: ATRIUM OF A ROMAN MANSION.]


                         LONDON
         SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
           CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET
                          1882.




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PREFACE.


This handbook is intended to give such an outline of the Architecture
of the Ancient World, and of that of Christendom down to the period of
the Crusades, as, without attempting to supply the minute information
required by the professional student, may give a general idea of the
works of the great building nations of Antiquity and the Early
Christian times. Its chief object has been to place information on the
subject within the reach