The four books of architecture
By: by Andrea Palladio ... ; literally translated from the original Italian by Isaac Ware ...
Contributors: Ware, Isaac, d. 1766.
Publisher: Printed for R. Ware ...
Published: 1738
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Translation of: I quattro libri dell'architettura.
Added engraved general t.p., which reads: The four books of Andrea Palladio's architecture ... London : Published by Isaac Ware, MDCCXXXVII. There are also engraved special t.p.'s for books 2-4.
Signatures: pi1 2pi1 A² b1 B-2F²; 4 engr. t.p.'s.
The plates are traced and engraved exactly by Isaac Ware from Palladio's original woodcuts. Cf. t.p. and prelim. p. [5]
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) Book I. Containing the five orders and the most necessary observations in building; title: Book II. In which the designs of several houses ordered by him ... are comprised, and the designs of the ancient houses of the Greeks and Latins; title: Book III. Wherein the ways, bridges, piazzas, basilica's, and xisti are treated of; title: Book IV. Describing and figuring the ancient temples that are in Rome and some others that are in Italy and out of Italy.