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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.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1729 Palladi
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- 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
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