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PALLADIO,, Andrea (1508--1580)
[Quattro libri dell'architettura. Book I. English. 1742]
The first book of Andrea Palladio's architecture. Treating of the five orders; and what is most necessary in building. Correctly drawn from his original work, publish'd by himself at Venice, anno 1570. And accurately engraved by I. Ware.
London (Place), 1742.
viii, 63, [1] p., engr. port., XXXIV [i.e. 29] pl. : [9] engr. illus. ; 20.3 cm. (8º)

Isaac Ware's English edition of I quattro libri, the most accurate translation of the text published at that date and with the plates newly traced and engraved, was first published in folio between mid-1737 and 1738, competing with Benjamin Cole's inferior edition (1736 ed., q.v.) on price: see Harris and Savage, pp. 363--4 and BAL 2395. The present work is a separate octavo edition with reduced plates of the first book only. The portrait of Palladio was designed by William Kent. The first two plates numbered I--III and IIII--VII respectively. ESTC n47296; Harris and Savage 690; BAL, Early printed books, no. 2413.

Copy Notes This may be the Palladio Architecture 8vo Russia bought from T. & W. Boone for 4s. 6d. on 18 December 1823. (Spiers Box). Bookseller's hieroglyphs in pencil on front and rear free-endpapers. With a small pencil and wash drawing of a Corinthian capital in an octagonal double-line frame pasted down on the upper margin of pl. XXII.

Binding C18th(?) diced russia, elaborate gilt-tooled borders, gilt-tooled spine with thistle motif, red spine-label.

Reference Number 2949

Additional Names T. & W.$Boone; Ware, Isaac (1704--1766); Ware, Isaac (1704--1766)


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