Comment 1: The first book was quite an obvious find as it’s the only other book we share the same author with: James Gibbs. It’s titled “A book of Architecture”. A book which I had stumbled upon before doing research for one of the other tasks, therefore immediately sounding familiar. Just like our book, it is…
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I started by rereading the description of my book I had written for the second task. I picked out some key words I was particularly interested in looking up or thought relevant to James Gibbs literature and therefore interesting to research. The first was “Drawing in a more exact and easy matter”. I wondered whether…
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The full title of the book is: Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture in a more exact and easy matter than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided. The book is quite large, it has a height of 48cms, a width of…
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The book has a pretty thick binding and is approximately 3cms thick. I was surprised how heavy it was. Alone from the smell you could tell it’s quite an old book.