The four books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture
Subtitle: wherein, after a short treatise of the five orders, those observations that are most necessary in building, private houses, streets, bridges, piazzas, xisti, and temples are treated of
Contributors: Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753; Fourdrinier, P., active 1720-1760; Kent, William, 1685-1748; Ware, Isaac, -1766
Publisher: Published by Isaac Ware
Published: 1738
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Architecture; Early works to 1800; Antiquities
Work titles: Quattro libri dell'architettura
Notes: Signatures: [pi]² ([pi]1 engraved), a², b1, A-K², [chi]1, L-P², 2[chi]1, Q-X², (X1 + 1), Y-Ff² (-Ff2 [=b1]).

Translation of: I quattro libri dell'architettura.

Engraved architectural t.p. and special t.p's for Books 2-4 ([2] p. following p. 36, 56 and 78); engraved headpiece and tailpiece by P. Fourdrinier and Isaac Ware after William Kent.

Dedication by the translator to the Earl of Burlington, acknowledging his assistance, signed: Isaac Ware.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.'s) Second book. Wherein the designs of several houses ordered by him both within and out of the city are contained, and the designs of the antient houses of the Greeks and Latins; title: Third book. Wherein the ways, bridges, piazzas, basilica's, and xisti are treated of; title: Fourth book. Wherein the antient temples that are in Rome are described and figured, & some others that are in Italy and out of Italy.; title: "The names of the subscribers": p. [5]-[7].