The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture: . wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of.
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580)
Category
Books
Date
1738
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3013873
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],110p.,plates . ill.. (metal cut) . fol... Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]; Very slight pencil sketch rear flyleaf and pencil notes inside rear board.. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf binding; six raised cords; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered: "Ware's Palladio".
Makers and roles
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) Isaac Ware (Hampstead c.1707 - London 1766)