| Fine modern rebinding with gold lettering and head & tail lines. 238 pp., (238 p. is marked 'finis') Also contains 66 full page illustrated plates, 2 folding illustrated plates and many smaller pictures and diagrams in the text. Lacking title page. Pages are unmarked, and internally good.
Early 18th century English-language edition of the first book of Palladio's "I Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura", one of the greatest and most enduring works on architecture. Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), was an Italian Renaissance architect who lived and worked in Venice, and designed many buildings in Vicenza. "The First Book of Architecture" was first translated into English in 1663. This book is an early 18th century edition, with an added last section about Roof designs. I: What ought to be considered and prepared before you begin to build; II: Of Timber; III. Of Stone; IV: Of Sand; V: Of Lime and How to Work It; VI: Of Metals; VII: Of the qualities of Ground wherein foundations are to be laid; VIII: Of foundations; IX: Of the Fashion of Walls; X: Of the Method which the Antients did practise in making their stone buildings; XI: Od the Diminuation of Walls, and of their parts; XII: Of the Five orders used by the antients; XIII: Of the swelling of columns, and their diminutions, of inter-columns and pilasters; XIV: Of the Tuscan Order; XV: Of the Doric Order; XVI: Of the Ionick Order; XVII: Of the Corinthian Order; XVIII: Of the Composita Order; XIX: Of Pedestals; XX: Of Errors; XXI: Of Galleries, Entries, Halls, Anti-Chambers and Chambers, and of their Proportions; XXII: Of Floors, and Superficies; of Departments, Planchers, and Flat Ceilings; XXIII: Of the Height of Halls, Anti-Chambers and Chambers; XXIV: Of the Proportion of the Height of Chambers of the Second Story; XXV: Of the proportion of Halls, Anti-Chambers of the First story, which are arched; XXVI: Of the proportion of the height of chambers of the second story; XXVII: of the porportion of the Third Story; XXVIII: of the height of galleries; XXIX: of the just proportion which the upper galleries ought to have; XXX: of the measures of doors and windows; XXXI: of the proportion of principal gates; XXXII: of the proportion of inner-doors; XXXIII: of the proportion of windows; XXXIV: of the proportion of soils of windows; XXXV: rules to be observed in making doors and windows; XXXVI: of the just proportion which the pilasters of doors and windows ought to have in thickness and projecture; XXXVII: of the ornaments of doors and windows; XXXVIII: Of Chimneys in Halls, Chambers, Studies, and wardrobes, and of their proportions; XXXIX: of chamber-chimneys, and or their proportions; XL: Of chimneys in studies and wardrobes; XLI: of funnels of chimneys; XLII: what is observed in making chimneys and the fashion which was practised among the antients; XLIII: of staircases, and their divers manners, and the numbers and greatness of their steps; XLIV: of the height and breadth of steps; XLV: Of divers manners of stairs. OF ROOFS: RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS for framing all manner of roofs, whether square or beveled, either above pitch, or under pitch, according to the best manner practised in England: XLVI: Of Roofs; XLVII: Of the Design A; XLVIII: Design of the Gable End or Roof B; Of the Italian or Hip Roof C; L: Of flat Roofs D;LI: Of Hip Roof E; LII: roof bevel at one end and square at the other, Gable end square, bevel end hips; G, Roof Bevel at both ends and broader at one end than another.
PLATES INCLUDE: #1-3: Walls, facing pages 13, 14 & 15; #4-8 : Columns, on page 21, page 27, page 29, page 33, page 37; 5: Tuscan columns, facing page 26; on page 29, on page 33;on page 37; Doric Columns: #9-14 : on page 41, page 43, page 47, page 49, page 55, page 57; #15-21: Or Ionick Columns: on page 61, page 63, page 67, page 69, page 73, page 77, page 79; #22-28 Corinthian Columns: on page 83, page 85, page 89, page 91, page 95, page 97, page 99; #29-35: Roman[Composita] columns: page 103, page 105, page 109, page 111, page 115, page 117, page 119; #36: Floors: page 133; #37-52 : Doors and Windows: page 151, page 157, page 161, page 163, page 165, page 167, page 169, page 171, page 175, page 177, page 179, page 181, page 183, page 185, page 187, page 189; #53-61 Stairs: page 199, page 201, page 203, page 205, page 207, page 209, page 211, page 213, page 215; #62-68 Roofs: page 219, page 223, page 225, page 227, page 233; facing page 234, folding plate; facing page 236, folding plate. |
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