The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books. Of painting in three books and Of statuary in one book. Translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli. And now first into English, and divided into three volumes by James Leoni, ...
Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472)
Category
Books
Date
1726
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3048754
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v., [101] plates (some fold.) : ill., plans ; fol. Imperfect: vol. 1 only. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case G. Shelf 8. Provenance: 'Peter Legh of Lyme, Esq' in subscriber's list. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: eighteenth-century reverse calf, with blind tooled panel; red morocco diaper centrepiece inlay, gilt tooled. Rebacked (nineteenth-century?), on six raised bands; gold lettered black spine label: Leoni's Architecture.
Makers and roles
Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472) Cosimo Bartoli (1503-1572) Giacomo Leoni (c.1686 - 1746) Raphael Trichet du Fresne (1611-1661)