Wilkinson, John Gardner: The Architecture Of Ancient Egypt: In Which The Columns Are Arranged In Orders, And The Temples Classified; With Remarks On The Early Progress Of Architecture, Etc.; With A Large Volume Of Plates Ilustrative Of The Subject, And Containing The Various Columns And details, From Actual Measurement (Text) (London, 1850)

PREFACE. IX

will be seen in the accompanying wood-cut:
where they are drawn (according to their
respective sizes) to the same scale; which
is one fourth of that adopted in my large
plates. For though Egyptian columns vary
very much in different buildings, and are
scarcely ever exactly similar, in all their de-
tails and proportions, even in the same hall,
or portico, I have endeavoured to show their
usual, or average, dimensions; referring how-
ever to the large plates, and to the text, for
their various measurements; from which it
will be seen (as in Plates vi, viii, and xi,
figs. 1, 2) that columns of the same form,
and order, are frequently more than twice as
large, in some, as in other, monuments.

I have explained my reasons for occa-
sionally placing columns of different orders
in the same plate ;* which are either in conse-
quence of their being related to each other,
or from their height being better suited to
the size of the plate, or of those introduced
with them; and the union of two plates, in
the same sheet, is owing to my having found
great size to be necessary for that volume,

* In the description of Plates xiii, x, xv.