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100 1 # $a Alberti, Leon Battista
240 1 1 $a [Works. $l Italian and English. $s Bartoli and Leoni. $f 1726.]
245 1 0 $a Della Architettura Di Leon Battista Alberti Libri X. Della Pittura Libri III. Della Statua Libro I. $b Tradotti In Lingua Italiana Da Cosimo Bartoli. Nova Edizione Divisa In Tre Tomi, Da Giacomo Leoni Veneziano, Architetto Con Aggiunta Di Varj Suoi Disegni Di Edificj Publici E Privati. Tomo I. (Tomo II.)
246 3 # $a Architecture Of Leon Battista Alberti
246 3 # $a Della pittura
246 3 # $a Della statua
260 # # $a In Londra $b presso Tommaso Edlin. $c M. DCCXXVI. $c [1726]
300 # # $a 3 vols.; $c 446 mm. (Folio).
500 # # $a Vol. I: [8], 103 f., frontis., [9] pl. - Vol. II: [2], 130 f., [54] pl. (1 dble.). - Vol. III: .
505 0 # $a Vol. I.: [Front., t.-pp., licence, dedic.] - Il Proemio / The Preface - Della Architettura / The Architecture [books 1-5]. - Vol. II: [T.-pp.] - Della Architettura / The Architecture [books 6-10]. - Vol. III: .
508 # # $a Leoni is believed to have been assisted in the English translation by John Ozell.

The frontispiece is signed as engraved by B. Picart. Most plates are signed as drawn by I. Leoni and engraved by, or under the direction of, B. Picart; plates [52-54] of Volume II are signed as drawn by B. Picart.

The work is dedicated by Leoni to George, Prince of Wales (afterwards King George II).
510 0 # $a RIBA, Early printed books, 1 (1994), 48; E. Harris and N. Savage, British architectural books (1990), p.107-9. Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961), no. 11, p.10-11.

On Leoni see R. Hewlings, 'James Leoni', in The architectural outsiders, ed. R. Brown (1985), p. 21-44. Studies of Alberti include L. Boschetto, Leon battista Alberti e Firenze (2000); Leon Battista Alberti: architettura e cultura: atti del convegno ... 1994 (1999); C. Van Eck, 'The structure of De re aedificatoria reconsidered', in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 57:3 (1998), p.280-97.
510 4 # $a ESTC $c T32316, T32315
520 2 # $a The English title page of Volume I reads, '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, Venetian, Architect; To Which Are Added Several Designs Of His Own, For Buildings Both Public And Private. Vol. I.' The title pages of Volume II read, 'Della Architettura Di Leon Battista Alberti Della Edizione Di Giacomo Leoni Tomo II' and 'The Architecture Of Leon Battista Alberti Published By James Leoni, Vol. II'. Although the title pages are dated 1726, plates [52-54] of Volume II are dated 1727, and the licence (copyright privilege) bound into Volume I is dated 1730.

The text is printed in English and Italian in parallel.

Alberti's De re aedificatoria, presented to Pope Nicolas V in 1452, was the first Renaissance treatise on architecture. In it Alberti addresses not only architectural principles but also the relations between patron and architect and methods of construction.
533 # # $n Microfilm versions were published in 2003 (Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary Source Microfilm) and 1986 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications).
561 # # $a Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
562 # # $a Imperfect; lacks Volume III. The title page of Volume I is inscribed in ink, 'J. French'.
563 # # $a 18th-century mottled calf; 20th-century red morocco spine-labels lettered 'Alberti Architettura Vol. I. (II.)'.
653 # # $a Architecture - Painting - Sculpture - Theory
653 # # $a Architecture - Painting - Sculpture - Italy - 15th century - Renaissance
655 # 4 $a Treatises - Italy - 15th century
655 # 4 $a Treatises - Translations into English - Translations from Italian - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Bartoli, Cosimo $e translator
700 1 # $a Leoni, Giacomo $e translator $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Edlin, Thomas $e publisher
700 1 # $a Picart, Bernard $e engraver $e draughtsman
700 1 # $a Ozell, John $e translator
700 0 # $a George II $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a French $e previous owner?
852 8 # $d 1802: A-5-02; 1821: L-5-03.