I quattro libri dell'architettura

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FAMOUS 18TH-CENTURY REISSUE. PALLADIO, Andrea. I quattro libri dell'architettura. Venice, Domenico de' Franceschi [i.e. Giambattista Pasquali], 1570 [i.e. 1768]. Folio (34x25cm). [4], 63, [1]; [2], 76; [4], 42, [4]; [2], 131, [1] pp. Each part with individual t-p, a total of 218 copperplate illustrations. Inscription on t-p: Ing. Balzaretto . Bound in contemporary half mottled leather and marbled paper, gilt lettering over label to spine. Some minor wear to the binding, internally fine. All edges sprinkled in red. An excellent widemargined copy. A fine later copy of this important architectural treatise; a famous reprint issued in Venice by Giambattista Pasquali at the behest of the British consul Joseph Smith, patron of various artists, in particular of Canaletto. This facsimile edition was intended not as a forgery but to meet the demand for a textbook occasioned by the eighteenth-century Palladian revival. Compared to the 1570 edition, the counterfeit has simple initials instead of historiated and copper engravings rather than woodcuts. Fowler 232. Seller Inventory # ABE-1651405572915

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