A PARALLEL of the ANTIENT ARCHITECTURE with the MODERN. In a Collection of Ten Principal Author's who have Written upon the FIVE ORDERS.

FREART, Roland and John EVELYN.

Editore: London printed for D. Brown at the Black Swan J. Walthoe B. Took at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street and D. Midwinter at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's-Church-Yard, 1707

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TITLE CONTINUED: 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, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, Comprise the First Part of this Treatise. And the Two Latine, 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. BOUND WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ARCHITECTS and ARCHITECTURE by JOHN EVELYN, with its own title page, London, no publisher, dated 1706, followed by: With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of STATUES. By JOHN EVELYN Esq; Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY. SECOND ENGLISH EDITION WITH LARGE ADDITIONS, 1707. LACKING HALF TITLE, another edition printed by E. Midwenter [sic], for D. Brown Folio, approximatley 355 x 240, 14 x 9 inches, 40 full page engraved plates with text to verso, plus 2 duplicated, 2 small text illustrations to second part, engraved head- and tail-pieces, neat ink name to first original endpaper. Pages: FIRST PART: [20], 1-115, 2 leaves duplicated and misnumbered on verso, page numbers 93-98, and 97-96, and pages 109-112 misnumbered the correct numbers penciled in. SECOND PART: [6], 1-75, [1]. last page publisher's advert, full speckled calf, rebacked at sometime in morocco, gilt title to spine, blind decoration to spine and covers. Some staining and scuffing to binding, new endpapers front and rear followed by and original endpaper fron and rear, 2 margins have small neat repair, no where near images or text, 3 tiny close tears to magins neatly repaired, some rippling to top margins, occasional pale age-browning or spot a very good clean copy. See: The Fowler Architectural Collection of the John Hopkins University Catalogue, pages 112-113 "Added engraved title found in some copies"; Eileen Harris, British Architectural Boos and Writers 1556-1785, pages 196-201, No 232; ESTC No: T118307. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Codice articolo 50595

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Titolo: A PARALLEL of the ANTIENT ARCHITECTURE with ...

Casa editrice: London printed for D. Brown at the Black Swan J. Walthoe B. Took at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street and D. Midwinter at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's-Church-Yard

Data di pubblicazione: 1707

Legatura: Rilegato