The first book of architecture: by Andrea Palladio. Translated out of Italian, with an appendix touching Doors and Windows. by Pr. Le Muet Architect to the French King. Translated into English by Godfrey Richards. The whole illustrated with above seventy 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 Published: 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 Curiousity never practised before in England.
- Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.
- Date:
- 1729
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Also known as
Quattro libri dell'architettura. Book 1. English
Publication/Creation
London : printed for Edw. Midwinter at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge, 1729.
Physical description
[4],238p.,plates : ill. ; 40.
Contributors
Edition
The eleventh edition, corrected and enlarged: ..
References note
ESTC T129726
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.