PALLADIO, Andrea. I quattro libri dell’architettura. Venezia, Bartolomeo Carampello, 1601.
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Description
folio, mm. 311x215; Binding of the XIX century in full vellum, cover with frame and golden decoration in the center, golden title on calf label on the spine; 4 parts, each with its own Title page, pp. 67, [1], 78, [2], 46, [2], 133, [1];
Architectonic Title pages with geometrical figures engraved on wood, Colophon with printer’s device on the last leaf, 221 woodcut illustrations in the text, at full or double page. Exemplary belonged to the Library Vinciana, whose bookplate is pasted on inside cover back.
RARE THIRD EDITION BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
One of the most important books on architecture. The illustrations imprinted in woodcut, by John and Christopher Chrieger, Christopher Coriolanus and others, are taken from the original drawings by Andrea Palladio and are the same as the FIRST EDITION in 1570.
The first book contains the fundamentals of "good architecture" based on Vitruvius and addresses the issue of building materials. The second illustrates many private houses built at the time, especially by the author, as well as ancient Greek and Roman homes. The third is the building up of the city on a regular and coordinated, with references to ancient models. The fourth is dedicated to the pagan temples. The core of the Treaty of Palladio is the recovery of antiquity to modern architecture to convey the character of grace, beauty and balance of the old one. His book exerted an enormous influence on European least until the end of the eighteenth century, when it became the reference book for architects neoclassical.
Fowler 214.
some spots, uniform browning due to the quality of paper and ink.
Architectonic Title pages with geometrical figures engraved on wood, Colophon with printer’s device on the last leaf, 221 woodcut illustrations in the text, at full or double page. Exemplary belonged to the Library Vinciana, whose bookplate is pasted on inside cover back.
RARE THIRD EDITION BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.
One of the most important books on architecture. The illustrations imprinted in woodcut, by John and Christopher Chrieger, Christopher Coriolanus and others, are taken from the original drawings by Andrea Palladio and are the same as the FIRST EDITION in 1570.
The first book contains the fundamentals of "good architecture" based on Vitruvius and addresses the issue of building materials. The second illustrates many private houses built at the time, especially by the author, as well as ancient Greek and Roman homes. The third is the building up of the city on a regular and coordinated, with references to ancient models. The fourth is dedicated to the pagan temples. The core of the Treaty of Palladio is the recovery of antiquity to modern architecture to convey the character of grace, beauty and balance of the old one. His book exerted an enormous influence on European least until the end of the eighteenth century, when it became the reference book for architects neoclassical.
Fowler 214.
some spots, uniform browning due to the quality of paper and ink.
