The first book of architecture:
by Andrea Palladio. Tr. out of Italian. With an appendix touching doors and windows. By Pr. Le Muet, architect to the French king. Tr. into English by Godfrey Richards. The whole illustrated with near fourscore copper cuts. Also rules and demonstrations, with several designs for the framing of any manner of roofs, either above pitch, or under pitch, whether square, or bevel, never before publish'd: by that ingenious architect Mr. William Pope of London. With designs of floors, of variety of small pieces of wood inlaid, lately made in the palace at Somerset-house; a curiosity never practised before in England.

Description

Main Author

Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.

Related Names

Richards, Godfrey.
Le Muet, Pierre, 1591-1669.

Language(s)

English

Published

London, Printed for Eben Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge, 1716.

Edition

The eighth edition, corrected and enlarged: With the model of the cathedral of St. Paul, London, when it was to be rebuilt.

Subjects

Architecture > Architecture / Early works to 1800.

Note

Imperfect: p. 173-174 wanting, p. 175-176 inserted between 190 and 191, p. 215-216 between 224 and 225.
Environ Dsgn NA2515.P33 1716: ENVI Rare

Physical Description

2 p. l., 238 p. incl. illus., plates, diagrs. fold. plate, fold. plans. 20 x 16 cm.

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