A parallel of the ancient 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 ... made English ... Written in French by Roland Freart, ... To which is added, An account of architects and architecture, ... With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of statues. By John Evelyn, ...
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676.
Contributors: Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus.
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Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: London : printed by T. W. for J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, and A. Ward ; W. Mears, F. Clay, B. Motte, and D. Browne, 1733.
Edition:The fourth edition, with the addition of The elements of architecture: collected by Sir Henry Wotton, ..
Notes:Translated and edited by Evelyn.

Titlepage in red and black.

'An account of architects and architecture' has separate pagination and register.

Preface text is continuous despite the pagination.

Physical description: [24],xxiv,xxix-xxxviii,115,[1];[6],53,[3],61-74 p., plates : ill ; 2⁰.

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