Excerpt from Specifications for Practical Architecture: Preceded by an Essay on the Decline of Excellence in the Structure and in the Science of Modern English Buildings V. The Specifications contained in this work, are entirely of my own composition more than forty of them I have chosen from a large collection lying by me, of papers composed for works intended for execution; and the works of thirty-two of these have been carried into absolute execution, principally under my own immediate superintendence: they have there fore, of necessity, some of that precision which can alone result from the consideration of works seriously intended to be undertaken: the remaining specifications, which have indeed more of the character of elementary details than of complete works, were purposely composed for this publica tion, and are intended less as complete specifications, than for amalgama tion with others. 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.