The whole body of antient and modern architecture
Subtitle: comprehending what has been said of it by these 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. Also An account of architects and architecture, in an historical, and etymological explanation of certain terms particularly used by architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of statues. The three Greek orders, Dorique, Ionique, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of the treatise. And the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita the latter
By: Published for the benefit of builders, limners, and painters. By John Evelyn ... Adorned with fifty one copper plates
Publisher: Printed for J.P., sold by C. Wilkinson [etc.
Published: 1680
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Architecture; Orders; Sculpture
Notes: Added t.-p., engraved, with portrait: A parallel of architecture both ancient & moderne, by Roland Fréart, Sr. de Chambray.

First edition, second issue; a reissue of the sheets of the first edition, 1664, which appeared under title: A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern.

Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, a⁴, *b², A⁴, B-C², D-Y⁴ (*b² wanting; Y₄, verso, advertisements)

Commendatory poem by John Beale.

Cf. Keynes, Geoffrey. John Evelyn ... Cambridge [Eng.] 1937, p. 167-168, no. 75.