FRE´ART, Roland, Sieur de Chambray (1606-1676). A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern . London: T. W. for D. Browne [and others], 1723.
FRE´ART, Roland, Sieur de Chambray (1606-1676). A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern . London: T. W. for D. Browne [and others], 1723. 2º (354 x 210mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait, title in red and black, 40 full-page and 2 half-page architectural engravings, woodcut and engraved head- and tailpieces. (a2 detached, occasional dampstains and marginal tears.) Contemporary reversed calf, panelled in blind (spine chipped). Provenance : Robert More of Linley (d. 1780; bookplate). Third edition of the English translation by John Evelyn, including The Elements of Architecture by Sir Henry Wotton and other additions. Second issue, the first being dated 1722 on the title. Fréart's influential work, which had first appeared in Paris in 1650, collects together and illustrates the architectural essays of ten masters of the field -- Palladio, Scamozzi, Serlio, Vignola, Barbaro, Cattaneo, Alberti, Viola, Bullant and De Lorme. Harris 235; Keynes 77; RIBA 1136.
FRE´ART, Roland, Sieur de Chambray (1606-1676). A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern . London: T. W. for D. Browne [and others], 1723.
FRE´ART, Roland, Sieur de Chambray (1606-1676). A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern . London: T. W. for D. Browne [and others], 1723. 2º (354 x 210mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait, title in red and black, 40 full-page and 2 half-page architectural engravings, woodcut and engraved head- and tailpieces. (a2 detached, occasional dampstains and marginal tears.) Contemporary reversed calf, panelled in blind (spine chipped). Provenance : Robert More of Linley (d. 1780; bookplate). Third edition of the English translation by John Evelyn, including The Elements of Architecture by Sir Henry Wotton and other additions. Second issue, the first being dated 1722 on the title. Fréart's influential work, which had first appeared in Paris in 1650, collects together and illustrates the architectural essays of ten masters of the field -- Palladio, Scamozzi, Serlio, Vignola, Barbaro, Cattaneo, Alberti, Viola, Bullant and De Lorme. Harris 235; Keynes 77; RIBA 1136.
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