ABSTRACT

Our inventory of letterpress articles in the series The EncyclopaedicDictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts is composed of subjects derived from various branches of architecture and allied arts and crafts. The following short list of headwords is provided here to give the reader an outline impression of the range of material that is included in the letterpress articles:

Architectural terms, arch construction, building construction, building materials, cabinet work, carpentry, classical orders, decorative art, design principles including aesthetics, domes, drainage, fortification, furnishings, furniture, gardening, joinery, landscape terms, military art, mouldings, ornament, painting, perspective, sanitation, sculpture, surveying, terminology of the building trades and crafts, tools and equipment used in building construction, and vaults.