AUTHOR

Roland Freart (1606-1676) and John Evelyn (1620-1706)

TITLE

A Parallel of the Antient 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..

PLACE OF PUBLICATION

London

PUBLISHER

Tho. Roycroft

PUBLICATION DATE

1664, First English Edition

FORMAT

Hardback, folio

PAGINATION

[1], [16], 159, [1]

DIMENSIONS

height 41.2 cm x width 25 cm

DESCRIPTION : Bound in mottled leather, expertly rebacked using original backstrip, gilt in compartments, morocco spine label.  40 full-page and 8 further illustrations in the text.  Originally published in French in 1650, the plates were re-engraved for this edition.  An important work, prohibitally expensive when published (4 pages about this in Harris).

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CONDITION GRADE : Very Good
  Couple of ink spots on edge of text-block.
  Lines on p.34 (which is a page of text).

BOOK CONDITION
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