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PALLADIO, Andrea. The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books. Containing a short Treatise of the Five Orders, and the most necessary Observations concerning all Sorts of Building. Edited by Giacomo Leoni. London: John Watts for the Author, 1715.
PALLADIO, Andrea. The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books. Containing a short Treatise of the Five Orders, and the most necessary Observations concerning all Sorts of Building. Edited by Giacomo Leoni. London: John Watts for the Author, 1715. 4 parts in 1 volume, 2° (448 x 287 mm). List of subscribers, 205 engraved plates including engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait (mounted), and a few double-page (mounted on guards). (A few pale spots or short marginal tears.) 19th-century blind-tooled calf, spine in 8 compartments with 7 raised bands gilt, gilt lettering-pieces (worn, joints starting). Provenance : B.T. Batsford (bookseller’s label on pastedown); Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet (1778-1860) British historian (armorial bookplate on pastedown); Ogden Codman (1863-1951) American architect and designer in the Beaux-Arts style (bookplate and label noting the loan of the book to the Metropolitan Museum of art on pastedown). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of one of the most influential books on architecture. "Palladio's lasting influence on architectural style in many parts of the world was exercised less through his actual buildings than through his textbook. This is divided into four sections: orders and elementary problems, domestic building, public building and town planning and temples. Palladio's style was directly inspired by Roman classical models through the writings of Vitruvius and Alberti" ( PMM ). Palladio's influence in the United States can be seen in Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Jefferson's designs for the University of Virginia, numerous governmental buildings and mansions. Book 4 is divided into 2 parts. Fowler 223; Harris 683.