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 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 a variety of small pieces of wood inlaid, lately made in the Palace at Somerset-House; a Curiosity never practised before in England. With a new Model of the Cathedral of St. Paul, London, as it is now Rebuilt.

  • Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.
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1721
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Quattro libri dell'architettura. Book 1. English

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London : printed for S. H. and H. T. And sold by James Knapton, Robert Knaplock, John Sprint, Daniel Midwinter, Ranew Robinson, William Taylor, William and John Innis, and John Osborne, 1721.

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[6],238p.,plates : ill. ; 40.

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The ninth edition, corrected and enlarged: ..

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ESTC T183065

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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