I qvattro libri dell'architettvra di Andrea Palladio
Subtitle: ne' quali, dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini, & di quelli auertimenti, che sono piu necessarii nel fabricare; si tratta delle case private, delle vie, de i ponti, delle piazze, de i xisti, et de' tempij
Contributors: Smith, Joseph, 1674-1770
Publisher: Appresso Dominico de' Franceschi
Published: 1771
Place of publication: In Venetia; [Venice
Language: ita
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Designs and plans; Architecture; Classical Architecture; Antiquities; Renaissance Architecture
Other titles: Quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio.
Notes: The so-called "counterfeit edition," based on the first edition of 1570 with copper-plate copies of the original woodcuts.

Plates used "are the same as those found in the Fowler copy of the Pasinelli ed., 1740-1748, ([Fowler] no. 230)".

This edition was published through the bequest of Joseph Smith (1682-1770), British consul at Venice.  Cf. Notes and queries, 10th ser., vol. 4, 1905, p. 383.

Mortimer reports a publication date of 1767 derived from a note of Thomas Hollis in his copy given to Harvard.

Signatures: * A-Q℗øA-T℗ø** A-L℗øA-Z℗øAa-Kk℗ø.  Title pages bear no sign.  Leaf following t.p.s of v. 1 and 3 bear an unnumbered sign.

Pagination: [4], 63, [1] p.; [2], 76 p.; [4], 42, [2, blank]; [2], 131, [1] p.  Leaf used as a paste-down end paper reads: In fine del terzo libro ... (in reverse).

Fowler 232

Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent., 352

Sloan candidate lp Tier 3