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001 $ 06/1893
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20211112164229.5
041 0 # $a eng $h ita
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Milizia, Francesco
240 1 4 $a [Le Vite De' Più Celebri Architetti D'Ogni Nazione E D'Ogni Tempo. $l English. $s Cresy. $f 1826.]
245 1 4 $a The Lives Of Celebrated Architects, Ancient And Modern: With Historical And Critical Observations On Their Works, And On The Principles Of The Art. By Francesco Milizia. Translated from the Italian By Mrs. Edward Cresy. With Notes And Additional Lives. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. (II.)
260 # # $a London: $b Printed For J. Taylor, Architectural Library, High Holborn. $c 1826.
300 # # $a 2 vols.; $c 227 mm. (Octavo.)
500 # # $a Vol. I: [i-]xvi, [xiii-]lxxii, [ii], 351, [1]p. - Vol. II: [iv], 454, [2]p.
505 0 # $a Vol. I: [Half-t., t.p., dedic.] - Preface - Introduction - Contents. Volume The First. (Second.) - [Text]; [colophon]. - Vol. II: [Half-t., t.p.] - [Text] - Index; [colophon] - [Publisher's advertisement].
508 # # $a The printer is named on the half-title verso and in the colophons: 'London: Printed By J. Moyes, Bouverie Street.'

The translation is dedicated by Eliza Cresy 'To John Soane, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. Architect To The Bank Of England ... Professor Of Architecture In The Royal Academy ...'.
510 0 # $a RIBA, Early printed, 3 (1999), no. 2131, p.1137-9.

J. Rykwert, On Adam's house in Paradise (1972); I. Prozzillo, Francesco Milizia teorico e storico d' architettura (1971); P. Zampetti, 'Francesco Milizia: uomo e critico d'arte', in Sensibilit e razionalità nel settecento (1967).
520 2 # $a The first volume contains an introduction to architectural principles and an account of European architects from the 5th century B.C. to the 16th century A.D.; the second volume, of those of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The translator has slightly expanded the original text, with notes on sources and lives of a few architects not included by Milizia.
563 # # $a 19th-century quarter blue cloth, brown papered boards; white paper spine-labels lettered 'The Lives Of Celebrated Architects · Milizia I (II)'.
653 # # $a Architects, European - Artists - Architecture, European - Europe - History
655 # 4 $a Art history - Art criticism - Biography - Reference books - Italy - 18th century
655 # 4 $a Translations into English - Translations from Italian - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Cresy $e translator
700 1 # $a Taylor $e publisher
700 1 # $a Moyes $e printer
710 2 # $a Architectural Library (London) $e publisher