A PARALLEL OF THE ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE IN THE MODERN Roland Fréart 1733 Illust
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TITLE: A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern
AUTHOR: Roland Fréart, sieur de Chambray "Made English for the Benefit of Builders" by John Evelyn.
PUBLISHER: London: Printed by T.W. for J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, and A. Ward ; W. Mears, F. Clay, B. Motte, and D. Browne
DATE: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]
DESCRIPTION: [24], xxiv, xxix-xxxviii, 115, [1]; [6], 53, [3], 61-74p, ill ; 2o. Text sections complete, but many illustrated plates excised with stubs showing and some shakiness to some leaves due to loss of conjugates. 26 leaves lost, all in the 115 paged section, probably all architectural illustrations. Preliminaries and "Account of Architects and Architecture" complete with some illustrations and head and tailpieces.
CONDITION NOTES: FAIR. INCOMPLETE as stated. Front cover detached. Pages otherwise clean. Covers battered.
BINDING: Full Calf.
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Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderneFULL TITLE: A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, Viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, Compared with one another. The Three Greek Orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, comprise the First Part of this Treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the Latter. Written in French by Roland Freart, Sieur de Chambray. Made English for the Benefit of Builders. To which is added, An account of architects and architecture, in an Historical and Etymological Explanation of certain Terms particularly affected by Architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of statues. By John Evelyn, Esq ; Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Parallèle de l'architecture antique avec la moderne, the original French title, was first published in 1650, and with other work by Fréart, represents a sea change in the way architecture was practiced in Europe.
