Andrea Palladio (1508-1580): I QUATTRO LIBRI DELL’ARCHITETTURA, Venezia: Bartolomeo Carampello, 1616.

Description

Venezia: Bartolomeo Carampello, 1616.

4 parts in volume in folio (320 x 210mm). Pagination: 67 pp. – 1 f. – 78 pp. – 46 pp. -1 f. – 133 pp., – 1 p., Frontispiece within elaborate woodcut frame, woodcut initials and illustrations. Contemporary leather, title on gilt spine, double gilt frame on the boards, spine and corners restored.

Provenance: Juvenel? (title note) – Bibliothèque F. Renard (exlibris on pastedown) – John de Zulueta (exlibris on pastedown).

Comments:

Unsophisticated copy of the most studied architectural treatise in the Renaissance, in which systematic rules for construction and numerous examples of projects are indicated. The book was a great success and inspired the work of a large number of architects throughout the nineteenth century to be considered the most influential publication of architecture ever produced and determining much of the architectural image of Western civilization.

Reference:  Fowler 215