Shelfmark
Fc.2.09
Author
Fréart, Roland, 1606 - 1676 sieur de Chambray,
Uniform title
[Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne. English]
Title
A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern, : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter. / Written in French by Roland Freart, Sieur de Chambray. Made English for the benefit of builders. To which is added, an account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain terms particularly affected by architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues. By John Evelyn, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society.
Edition
The third edition, / with the addition of The elements of architecture; collected by Sir Henry Wotton Knt. from the best authors and examples; and also other large additions.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed by T.W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay., MDCCXXIII. [1723]
Physical description
[24], xx, xxv-xxxviii, 115, [7], 74 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., port. ; fol.
Note
Printed marginalia.
Note
Initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Note
Page xiv misnumbered xvi; text continuous despite skip in pagination from xx to xxv.
Note
'An account of architects and architecture' has separate title-page, pagination and signatures.
Note
With an added engraved t.p., including a port. of the author, reading: "A paralell [sic] of architecture both ancient & moderne by Roland Freart, Sr. de Chambray".
Note
The words 'Palladio ... one another' are joined with braces on the t.p.
Note
Title in red and black.
Note
Woodcut vignette on t.p.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T43635
Provenance
Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: B.G. Rossiter 1833.
Provenance
Donation inscription on front flyleaf: Presented to the Fellows Library, Eton College, by Logan Pearsall Smith.
Binding
18th century English carf binding; blind tooled with fillets to form panels, which have been spattered or left plain; large fleurons at each corner; 20th century rebacking of spattered leather; gold tooled fillet around bands; earlier red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters reattached; six raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect copy: lacks engraved t.p.
Subject
Architecture Orders Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Clay, Francis, ? - d. 1738 publisher.
Added entry--name
Mears, W. (William), fl. 1713 - 1758 (William), publisher.
Added entry--name
Midwinter, Daniel, active 1698 - 1725 publisher.
Added entry--name
Tooke, Samuel publisher.
Added entry--name
Tooke, Benjamin, ? - d. 1716 publisher.
Added entry--name
Walthoe, John, 1657 or 8 - 1744 publisher.
Added entry--name
Browne, Daniel, 1647 - 1727 publisher.
Added entry--name
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404 - 1472 De statua. English.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir, Elements of architecture.
Added entry--name
Evelyn, John, 1620 - 1706 Account of architects and architecture.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B27934