A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. : The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita the latter. / Written in French by Roland Freart, Sieur de Chambray ; made English for the benefit of builders. ; To which is added an Account of architects and architecture in an historical and etymologyical explanation of certain tearms [sic] particularly affected by architects ; With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise Of statues. By John Evelyn Esq. Fellow of the Royal Society.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676.

Contributor:

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706, Translator.

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706., Editor.

Roycroft, Thomas, -1677, Printer.

Place, John., Bookseller.

Raley, Robert L., Former owner.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--Terminology--Early works to 1800.

Sculpture--Early works to 1800.

Sculpture.

Physical Description:

[24], 159, [1] p. : ill. (metal cuts), port. (metal cut) ; 35 cm.

Other Title:

Paralell of architecture both ancient & moderne

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Tho. Roycroft for John Place, and are to be sold at his shop at Furnival's-Inn Gate in Holborn, MDCLXIV [1664]

Notes:

Head and tail pieces; wood-cut initals; engraved title vignette.

Added engraved t.p. has portrait of Fréart with title: A paralell [sic] of architecture both ancient & moderne.

First edition of John Evelyn's English translation of Fréart's 'Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne' (1650).

Error in pagination: p. 159 misnumbered as p. 156.

Errata: p. 159.

Bookseller's advertisement: p. [1], final sequence.

Engraved illustrations and added engraved t.p. are close copies of the original plates of the 1650 edition which were originally drawn and engraved by Charles Errard. Cf. Fowler; Harris.

Evelyn's 'Account of architects and architecture' (p. 115-142) was conceived as an enlargement of terms provided by Freart; it was later expanded to twice its original size. Cf. Harris.

Dedicated to Charles II and to Sir John Denham.

English translation of Alberti's "Della statua" is on p. 145-[159]

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Binding is in contemporary full leather.

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley/Carpenters' Company Collection.

Athenaeum also has copy of 1707 (2nd) edition (Harris 232)

Cited in:

Fowler, 128

Harris. Brit. architectural books, 230

ESTC, R19331

Park, Helen. A list of architectural books available in America before the revolution, 15

Contains:

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. Account of architects and architecture.

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 De statua. English.