A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter / written in French by Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray. Made English for the benefit of builders. To which is added, An account of architects and architecture ... with Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of statues. By John Evelyn.

Main entry:

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

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Edition:

The fourth edition, with the addition of The elements of architecture: collected by Sir Henry Wotton ... and also other large additions.

Publication:

London : Printed by T.W. for J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, and A. Ward ..., 1733.

Description:

[24], xxxviii [i.e. xxxiv], 115, [6], 74 [i.e. 70] pages : illustrations ; 36 cm

Notes:
Apparently the "fourth edition" of Evelyn's translation (first published in London in 1664) of Parallèle de l'architecture et de la moderne, first published in Paris, 1650. Cf. Brunet, v. I, col. 1762, and Graesse, v. 2, p. 113 for first and others, but not this edition. Cf. Lowndes, v. 2, p. 837 for the 1664 and this edition.
Ill. are mostly full-page engravings, printed on recto of textual leaves.

Subject:

Architecture Orders.
Sculpture.
Architecture History.
Architecture Ordres.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. De statua.
Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639. Elements of architecture.

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Location: Library main 79570
Call No.: W470
Status: Available

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