Andrea Palladio's Architecture, iin Four Books Containing a Dissertation on the Five Orders & ye most Necessary Observations relating to all kinds of Building. as also The Different Constructions of Public and Private-Houses, High-ways, Bridges, Market-Places, Xystes, & Temples, w.th their Plans, Sections, & Elevations. The Whole Containing 226 Folio Copper-Plates Carefully Revis'd and Redelineated By Edw.d Hoppus Surveyor to ye Corporation of the London Assurance and Embellish'd w.th a Large Variety of Chimney Pieces Collected from the Works of Inigo Jones & others.
[Quattro libri dell'architettura., English., Cole., 1732-1735.]
Imprint
London: Printed for & Sold by the Proprietor, & Engraver, Benj: Cole and by ye Booksellers of London & Westminster, MDCCXXXV
Physical Description
2 vols.; 318 mm.
General Note
The work was published in parts between November 1732 and early 1735. The work was paginated and signed continuously. Each Book has a separate titlepage; that to Book 1 is engraved, those to books 2 and 3 are dated 1733 and the one for Book 4 is dated 1734.
Copy 1, Volume I, Book 1: 70 p., [2] engr. t.-pl., engr. dedication, XXXV engr. pl.; Book 2: [3], 74-121, [1] p., LXI engr. pl.
Royal Institute of British Architects, Early printed books, 3, 1999, no. 2392
ESTC, T150562
Provenance
The upper right-hand corner of the first engraved title-plate in Volume II of Copy 1 has an ownership inscription in ink, the surname partially removed, which reads: Thomas G [illegible] Feb.y 9th 1778, Copy 1 was a bequest of Sir Edwin Cooper, October 1961., Copy 2 was presented by Mr Emanuel Vincent Harris, in 1965.
Binding Note
The two volumes of Copy 1 are quarter bound brown leather with gilt lettering on the spines reading, 'Palladio's Architecture', and 'I [II]' and '1735', Copy 2 is lettered with gilt lettering on the spine, 'Palladio's Architecture' and 'R.A. 1735'.