PALLADIO, Andrea; Giacomo Leoni.

containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary of observations concerning all sorts of buildings as also different construction of private and public houses, highways, bridges, marketplaces, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections and uprights, to which are added several notes and observations made by Inigo Jones, never printed before.

Published

John Watts, London,1715

Description / Condition

First English edition. Three volumes, folio, text in English, French, & Italian. Vol I: Books I & II pp. [14], 54, 37, allegorical frontispiece, 2 title-pages, subscriber’s list, 104 engraved plates; Vol II: Books III & IV, Parts I & II pp. 37, [4], 37, [4], 33, 17, [4], title-pages, subscriber’s list, ,126 engraved plates; Vol III: title-page, pp. xxx, xxi, xxii, xii, 23, 23, 20, 12, 2, modern calf antique.

Other Notes

First complete edition in English of the “I quattro libri”. Palladio’s influence on the course of British architecture in the eighteenth century was enormous. The publication of I Quattro libri in England had a significant impact in disseminating the work of the great Venetian architect of the Renaissance.

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