The gentlemans recreation in two parts : the first being an encyclopedy of the arts and sciences ... the second part treats of horsmanship, hawking, hunting, fowling, fishing, and agriculture : with a short treatise of cock-fighting ... : all which are collected from the most authentick authors, and the many gross errors therein corrected, with great enlargements ... : and for the better explanation thereof, great variety of useful sculptures, as nets, traps, engines, &c. are added for the taking of beasts, fowl and fish : not hitherto published by any : the whole illustrated with about an hundred ornamental and useful sculptures engraven in copper, relating to the several subjects.

The Names of the several Parts, or Members of the Column, according to the Figure marked A.

THat marked A, is called the Ovum, or Ovolo. B, the Tondino, or round. C, the List or Rule. D, the Crown. E, the List. F, the Gula or Throat reverst. G, the Friese. H, the List of the Archi∣trave. J, the Architrave. K, the List of the A∣bacus. L, the Abacus, or Cimatium. M, the Ovum, or Ovolo. N, the List. O, the Friese of the Capital. P, the Neck of the Column. Q, the hanging o∣ver the Capital. And R, the Body of the Co∣lumn.

The Cornish which consists of a Model, and 4 of its parts, hath these parts following, with their Projectures.

	Parts.	Projecting.
The Ovum, or 4th part of the Round	4	18
The Round	1	14
The List, or Reiglet	½	13 ½
The Corona, or Gutter	6	13
The List beneath	½	4 ½
The Doucine, or Cimatium reverst	4	4
The Friese is not subdivided, it is of	14	4
The Architrave is divided into the List, and Architrave.
The List of the Architrave	2	2
The Architrave	10	0

The Architrave, and the Friese are to bear up∣on the Friese of the Capital.

If over and above the Entablement, the Column be allowed a Pedestal, it must be divided into 19 Parts, whereof the Column is to have 12, the En∣tablement 3, and the Pedestal 4, so that the whole heighth is to be 22 Models and ⅙.

The Ornaments of the Pedestal are the upper Cimatium, and the lower Cimatium, and both are to be of 6 parts.

The upper Cimatium hath 2 parts.

The List	2	4
The reverst Cimatium, or Doucine	4	3 ⅓
The begining of the shall have of Projecture	0	½
The lower Cimatium	2	0

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To the Right Worshipfull S^r. Thomas Fitch of Eltham, and Mount-Mascall in Ken t, Knight & Baronet▪ S^r. yo^•. great Knowledge in the Art of Architecture renders you the Fittes •• Person to be Selected in this Concern, whose name and Countenance will much add to the Reputation thereof, to whose Patronage, this Treatise with the Sculp∣tures of the Severall Orders, is humbly Dedicated, by Richard Blome.

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To the Right Worshipfull S^r. Thomas Fitch of Eltham and Mount Mascall in Kent Knight and Baronet, Descended from the Antient Family of the Fitches of Fitches Castle into the North. These Plates of the five Orders is humbly dedicated by Richard Blome.

The List, or Reigle••	1	2
The Plinth of the Pedestal	5	4

Observe that for the finding the Model of the Column the heighth being given, whatever division be otherwise made, the heighth of the Column must be divided only into 14 equal parts, one whereof is to be the Model required.

The Intercolumnium from Trunk to Trunk, is to be of 4 Models and ¾; but if there be Por∣tico's [ 10] without a Pedestal, then the Pilaster is to be of 3 Models, the Impost of 1, and the Pro∣jecture of 1 fourth of a Model; The distance of the Arch to the Architrave of 1 Model; The Foot of the Arch of 3 Models. The Door must be 13 Models high, and 6 ½ wide, and the di∣stance from the Impost to the Architrave must be 4 ¼ Models; but if there be Portico's with the Pedestals, then the Pilasters are to be of 4 Mod∣els, the heighth of the Door of 17 Models, and [ 20] the wideness of 8 ¾ Models.