Shelfmark
Ak.4.16 - Ak.4.17
Author
Uniform title
[Quattro libri dell'architettura. English]
Title
Andrea Palladio's architecture in four books containing a dissertation on the five orders & ye most necessary obserations relating to all kinds of building. As also the different constructions of public and private houses, high-ways, bridges, market-places, xystes, & temples, wth. their plans ... The whole containing 226 folio copper plates carefully revis'd and redelineated by Edw. Hoppus ... and embellish'd wth. a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones & others.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for & sold by the proprietor, & engraver, Benj: Cole And by ye booksellers of London & Westminster, 1735 [1733-1735].
Physical description
2v., plates (some folded) : ill. ; Fo.
Note
Translation (Italian-English) of "Quattro libri dell'architettura".
Note
Each book has own title-page, Book I's engraved, with dates 1733-1735.
Note
Printed price: "Price in sheets £1:10:0:".
Provenance
Label recording bequest to Eton by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Binding
18th century gold-stamped mottled calf.
Copy-specific note
Previously Dc.1.9-10.
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotations in hand of N. Mann.
Subject
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Subject
Architecture Orders Early works to 1800.
Subject
Rome Antiquities Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Hoppus, E., ? - d. 1739 (Edward)
Added entry--name
Cole, B. (Benjamin)
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B11013