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The architecture of A. Palladio in four books : containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observation concerning all sorts of building, as also the different construction of private and publick houses, high-ways, bridges, market-places, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections, and uprights : to which are added several notes and observations made by Inigo Jones, never printed before
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Quattro libri dell'architettura. Polyglot
Title
The architecture of A. Palladio [microform] : in four books : containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observation concerning all sorts of building, as also the different construction of private and publick houses, high-ways, bridges, market-places, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections, and uprights : to which are added several notes and observations made by Inigo Jones, never printed before / revis'd, design'd and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni ...; translated from the Italian original.
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London : Printed by John Watts for the author, 1715 [i.e. 1716?-1720?]
Physical Description
4 vols. in 5 : ill. ; 46 cm.
Notes
Translation into English and French of: Quattro libri dell'architettura. The Italian text is also included.
Vol.1 has collective t.p. and vols. 2-5 have special title pages. The French and Italian texts have corresponding title pages in each vol.
Translation by Nicholas Dubois.
The illustrations, newly drawn by Leoni, were engraved by Bernard Picart et al.
The title pages in vol.1 are dated 1715, the 1st being accompanied by 2 plates dated 1716. The title pages in vols. 2-5 are undated. Vol.5 contains a privilege dated 1719/20.
The Inigo Jones additions mentioned on t.p. were not included in the publication. Cf. preface to vol.5.
Index at end of vol.5.
Fiche headers group this as 15 separate works, with 5 vols. each under the three different language title pages, and give "Leoni, G." as author.
Microform project coordinated by the Davidson County Community College Learning Resources Center, Lexington, NC.
Microfiche. New Canaan, CT : Readex, 1988. 44 microfiches. (Furniture library collection)
Variant and related titles
L'Architecture de A. Palladio.
L'Architettura di A. Palladio.
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Books / Microforms
Language
English; French; Italian
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June 01, 2002
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