Main entry:

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676.

Title & Author:

Parallèle de l'architecture antique et de la moderne : avec un recueil des dix principaux auteurs qui ont é́crit des cinq ordres, sçavoir Palladio & Scamozzi, Serlio & Vignola, D. Barbaro & Cataneo, L. B. Alberti & Viola, Bullant & de Lorme, comparez entr'eux. Planches originales augmentées de dix autres representant en grand le piédestal de la colonne Trajane de Rome, & de plusieurs autres tailles-douces.

Publication:

A Paris : Chez Pierre Emery, Michel Brunet, et la Veuve de Daniel Horthemels, 1702.

Description:

[8], 117, [3] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 45 cm. (fol.)

Notes:
Engraved frontispiece by P. Dannoot after C. Errard (C. Errand in[cidit], P. Dannoot sculp[sit]).
Includes [42] vignettes and [44] full-page engravings (including engraved frontispiece);10 double-page plates at the end; engraved title vignette, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Name of author from royal privilege.
Signatures: pi² a² A-2G².
The engravings of the first edition (1650) have been used; the ten double-page plates at the end, engraved after Errard, show large-scale details of the pedestal of Trajan's column (Fowler).
Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, vol. 1, 1762
Cicognara, Catalogo, 510
Fowler, The Fowler Architectural Collection, pp. 111-12
Bookplate of R.E. Myddelton, Chirk Castle.
Bookplates of J.B. Bury and Michael Bury.

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Orders Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ordres Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Architecture Orders.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Bury, John, 1917-2017, former owner.
Bury, Michael, 1947- former owner.
Dannoot, Pieter, active 17th century, engraver.
Errard, Charles, 1606-1689, engraver.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 79776
Call No.: W469
Status: Available