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)

X PREFACE.

in order to avoid the inconvenience of a
double fold in Plate x, and to keep the price
of the work within proper limits. I have
thus been enabled to make it quite as con-
venient, as it would have been if of half the
size, and less costly to subscribers. To have
confined it to the dimensions of the letter-
press would have required the columns to
be too small for my purpose ; and I should
have been forced to abandon my method of
drawing all the columns to the same scale
(which alone can give any idea of their re-
lative dimensions) ; or to make many of
the plates fold, which is most inconvenient
to the reader, and destructive to the plates
themselves.

And now, in noticing the plates, it is
my very agreeable duty to acknowledge the
kind assistance of the Cavaliere Canina, of
Rome; for though his name is too well
known in Europe to render it necessary to
speak of his talents, or his valuable archi-
tectural works, I cannot deny myself the
pleasure of mentioning the disinterested
manner, in which he offered, and gave me,
his assistance. He was himself engaged, at