Parallèle de l'architectvre antiqve et de la moderne
Subtitle: avec vn recveil des dix principavx avtevrs qui ont écrit des cinq ordres : sçavoir Palladio et Scamozzi, Serlio et Vignola, D. Barbaro et Cataneo, L.B. Alberti et Viola, Bvllant et De Lorme, comparez entre eux ; les trois ordres Grecs, le Dorique, l'Ionique, et le Corinthien, font la premiere partie de ce traitté, et les deux Latins, le Toscan et le Composite, en font la derniere
Contributors: Errard, Charles, 1606-1689; Séguier, Pierre, 1588-1672, former owner, annotator; Delamair, Pierre Alexis, 1676-1745, former owner, annotator
Publisher: De l'imprimerie d'Edme Martin, ruë S. Iacques, au Soleil d'Or
Published: 1650
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Architecture; Comparative studies; Early works to 1800; Orders
Other titles: Parallèle de l'architecture antique et de la moderne avec un recueil des dix principaux auteurs qui ont écrit des cinq ordres; Parallele de larchitectvre antiqve avec la moderne; Parallele de l'architecture antique avec la moderne
Notes: Engraved t.p. by Tournier precedes letterpress t.p. with port. of Fréart and title: Parallele de larchitectvre antiqve avec la moderne / par Roland Freart, S.r de Chambray.

Privilege in 1702 ed. states that the 40 full page plates used in this ed. were engraved by Charles Errard who also assisted with the preparation of the text. Cf. Fowler. (Others report simply drawings by Errard. Fréart's introductory statement on Errard's help is unclear.) Additionally there are t.p. vignette, head- and tailpieces, initials.

Signatures: ã⁶ A-O⁴ (C1 printed B).

Fowler 127

Avery Classics copy 2: Inscribed on front free endpaper: Ex libris Petri Alexii De Lamair, regis architecti, anno gratiae 1704.

Aver Classics copy 2: Heavily annotated throughout in two hands, in ink and in red red pencil, likely attributed to De Lamair and Seguier.

Avery Classics copy 2: Binding: Full leather binding with armorial device of Pierre Séguier stamped in gold on both covers, and monogram on spine: P.S.M.F. [i.e. Pierre Séguier and Madeleine Fabry, his wife].