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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.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.
- Standardized Title:
- Quattro libri dell'architettura. Book 1. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture--Orders.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (RBC Copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 63 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 34, that is, 29 leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [London?] : [Isaac Ware?], 1742.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Quattro libri dell'architettura. Libro 1.
- Illustrations by Isaac Ware; after William Kent.
- Seven illustrations on the first 2 plates are counted as plates 1-7.
- Published as a complete and correct edition of Palladio's works in response to the publication by Benjamin Cole of Palladio's 'Architecture' in weekly parts from 1732-1734. Cf. Harris.
- Cited in:
- ESTC N47296
- Harris, E. British architectural books and writers. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994, c1990. 690
- OCLC:
- 8286344
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