Front matter

Transcriber’s note: The combination "vv" which occurs at some places for "w" and the word "Jonick" used sometimes for "Ionick" has been kept to conserve the original appearance of the book. No changes have been made in the text except the correction of obvious typos.

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 Mons^r 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