B27934

Language code

eng, fre

Shelfmark

Fc.2.09

Author

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray,

Uniform title

[Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne., English]

Title

A parallel of the antient 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, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter. /, Written in French by Roland Freart, Sieur de Chambray. Made English for the benefit of builders. To which is added, an account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain terms particularly affected by architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's treatise of statues. By John Evelyn, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society.

Edition

The third edition, /, with the addition of The elements of architecture; collected by Sir Henry Wotton Knt. from the best authors and examples; and also other large additions.

Publication, distribution, etc.

London: :, Printed by T.W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay.,, MDCCXXIII. [1723]

Physical description

[24], xx, xxv-xxxviii, 115, [7], 74 p., [1] leaf of plates :, ill., port. ;, fol.

Note

Printed marginalia.

Note

Initials, head- and tail-pieces.

Note

Page xiv misnumbered xvi; text continuous despite skip in pagination from xx to xxv.

Note

'An account of architects and architecture' has separate title-page, pagination and signatures.

Note

With an added engraved t.p., including a port. of the author, reading: "A paralell [sic] of architecture both ancient & moderne by Roland Freart, Sr. de Chambray".

Note

The words 'Palladio ... one another' are joined with braces on the t.p.

Note

Title in red and black.

Note

Woodcut vignette on t.p.

Citation/references note

ESTC,, T43635

Provenance

Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: B.G. Rossiter 1833.

Provenance

Donation inscription on front flyleaf: Presented to the Fellows Library, Eton College, by Logan Pearsall Smith.

Binding

18th century English carf binding; blind tooled with fillets to form panels, which have been spattered or left plain; large fleurons at each corner; 20th century rebacking of spattered leather; gold tooled fillet around bands; earlier red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters reattached; six raised bands.

Copy-specific note

Imperfect copy: lacks engraved t.p.

Subject

Architecture, Orders, Early works to 1800.

Added entry--name

Clay, Francis, publisher.

Added entry--name

Mears, W., (William),, publisher.

Added entry--name

Midwinter, Daniel, publisher.

Added entry--name

Tooke, Samuel, publisher.

Added entry--name

Tooke, Benjamin, publisher.

Added entry--name

Walthoe, John, publisher.

Added entry--name

Browne, Daniel, publisher.

Added entry--name

Alberti, Leon Battista, De statua., English.

Added entry--name

Wotton, Henry, Sir,, Elements of architecture.

Added entry--name

Evelyn, John, Account of architects and architecture.

Added entry--name

Smith, Logan, donor.

Added entry--place

England, London.

001B27934

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500##$aWoodcut vignette on t.p.

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