Andrea Palladio's five orders of architecture : with his treatises of pedestals, galleries, entries, halls, rooms, floors, pavements, ceilings; various arches, gates, doors, windows, chimnies, staircases, and roofs ; together with his observations and preparations for building and his errors and abuses in architecture / faithfully translated, and all the plates exactly copied from the first Italian edition printed in Venice 1570 ; revised by Colen Campbell ... to which are added five curious plates of doors, windows, and chimney-pieces invented by Mr. Campbell.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.

Contributor:

• Campbell, Colen, 1676-1729.
• Hassinger, Herman A., Former owner.
• Harding, Samuel, -1755, Publisher.
• Fourdrinier, Paul, 1698-1758, Engraver.
• Albert Oldach & Son., Binder.
• British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Architecture--Early works to 1800.
• Architecture--Orders.
• Architecture--Details.

Physical Description:

[8], 66 p. ; ill. ; 32 cm.

Other Title:

Five orders of architecture

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for S. Harding, at the Bible and Anchor on the pavement in St. Martin's Lane, MDCCXXIX. [1729]

Notes:

• Added engraved title-page, by P. Fourdrinier and dated 1728, reads : Andrea Palladio's First book of architecture, with all the plates, exactly copyed from the first Italian edition, printed in Venice, Anno 1570; revised by Colen Campbell, esq., author of Vitruvius Britannicus.
• Originally published on 1728. Cf. Harris and Savage, #686.
• Illustrations: 37 prints: 2 half plates, 35 full plates. 1 engraved t.p. and 5 Campbell's plates are not numbered. All the plates were engraved by P. Fourdrinier.

Local Notes:

• Athenaeum copy: Binding: In tan leather with gold tooling on front and back boards and gilt lettering on front board and on spine; with marbled endpapers. Inside the free back endpaper signed: Albert Oldach & Son, Phila, PA.
• Athenaeum copy: Library copy is a gift of Herman A. Hassinger, FAIA.

Cited in:

• Harris and Savage 687
• ESTC N30216