Excerpt from The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic Art In the subtitle to his book, Campbell defines the mean ing of his title: Vitruvius Britannicus or the British Architect, containing the plans of the Regular Buildings and the Geometrical Plans of Gardens and Plantations. The definition of the term Vitruvius which this title and the book itself constitute has two important phases. In the first place the term (lid not imply a discussion of the orders and architectural de tails, and in the second place, it was definitely understood tr: apply only to regular buildings and geometrical p ans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.