Main entry:

Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.

Title & Author:

The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture : Wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.

Publication:

London : Published by Isaac Ware, anno MDCCXXXVIII [1738].

Description:

[12], 110, [2] pages, [212] leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations, plans ; 41 cm (fol.)

Notes:
Translation of: I quatro libri dell'architettura.
Engraved t.p.; books II-IV have separate engraved title pages.
Signatures: pi² a² A-2F²
Continuous pagination and registration; plates are numbered separately within each book.
Errata on p. [112].
List of subscribers on two leaves following t.p.
Head- and tail-pieces; initials.
(From t. p.'s) Second book. Wherein the designs of several houses ordered by him both within and out of the city are contained, and the designs of the antient houses of the Greeks and Latins -- Third book. Wherein the ways, bridges, piazzas, basilica's, and xisti are treated of -- Fourth book. Wherein the antient temples that are in Rome are described and figured, & some others that are in Italy and out of Italy.
English short title catalogue, T40073
Lowndes III:1766
BM 40:141
CBEL II:812
Fowler 229

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Antiquities
Architecture
Rome Antiquities.
Rome Antiquités.
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

Treatises.
Early works
Armorial bookplates (Provenance) NNC.
Markings (Provenance) NNC.

Added entries:

Ware, Isaac, 1704?-1766, publisher.
Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of, 1693-1750, former owner
England London.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 29738
Call No.: NA44.P164 (2238)
Status: Available

Location: Library cage m 263760
Call No.: NA44.P164 (2238)
Copy: original covers
Status: Available