For first-time buyers, we prefer a credit card and we will only ship to the billing address on the card. We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, checks and wire transfer. For some items, we can also email digital photographs.Īll of our items are guaranteed as described and are shipped on approval. If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. A beautifully bound copy of this exceptionally important architectural treatise. Scattered light foxing expert restoration with later gilt added to original calf boards. Title pages only for third and fourth books bound in reverse order. With copper-engraved allegorical frontispiece and full-page portrait of Palladio by Picart. It includes essays on building materials, the classical orders and decorative ornaments, Palladio's own designs and his reconstructions of Greek and Roman designs, plans for ancient towns, bridges, highways, and basilicas, and plans for the reconstruction of early Roman temples. This second edition was quickly put through the press and delivered to all 141 new subscribers in 1721. By March of 1720, the first edition had successfully sold out, prompting Leoni to advertise in the Daily Courant an offer to buy back any unwanted copies (Harris, 356). Leoni's edition was first published between 17. There can be no major city in Europe that does not contain a building influenced by Palladio, and there are a great many more in America… The Architecture in Four Books of Palladio was translated into English and provided with a fine set of plates, specially redrawn by a Venetian architect, Giacomo Leoni" ( Great Books and Book Collectors, 175, 186). It was swiftly translated into other languages and went through numerous editions. For two years Palladio studied in Rome and in 1570 published his Quattro Libri, which "deals with every aspect of architecture from proportions to town-planning, the whole imbued with the gravitas that Palladio had derived from his study of ancient Rome… No architecture book has ever had wider influence, more especially in England. One of the few architects of the early Renaissance to be trained as a builder, Palladio was recognized by the great Italian architect and scholar Trissino and adopted as his protege. "Palladio is the Bible," he told a friend whom he urged to get a copy of the treatise, "and stick close to it" (Randall, 151).
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When ordering the capitals for the Pavilions at the University of Virginia from Italy, Jefferson specified that they be carved after particular plates in this 1721 edition. Thomas Jefferson, for example, had many copies in his library and used Palladio as a basis for his design of Monticello. Leoni's edition ignited the great Palladian revival in England and its American colonies. Second edition in English of Palladio’s enormously important treatise on architecture, including essays on building materials, the classical orders and decorative ornaments, with frontispiece portrait and allegorical title page, 218 magnificent copper-engraved plates (15 double-page) on 203 sheets, and 12 in-text engravings- all after drawings by Giacomo Leoni.Īlthough the first part of Palladio's monumental work had been translated into English in the 1600s, it was not until Giacomo Leoni's 1715 first edition in English that the complete work was published.
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Tall folio (12 by 19 inches), contemporary full mottled brown calf rebacked in elaborately gilt-decorated calf-gilt, burgundy morocco spine label, raised bands. Palladio In Four Books Containing A Short Treatise of the Five Orders, and the most necessary Observations concerning all Sorts of Building… Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd by Giacomo Leoni. “NO ARCHITECTURE BOOK HAS EVER HAD WIDER INFLUENCE”: 1721 SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH OF PALLADIO’S FOUR BOOKS OF ARCHITECTURE, SUPERBLY ILLUSTRATED WITH 230 ENGRAVED ARCHITECTURAL PLATES
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