CAMPBELL Colin
£2,600
Auction: 1 February 2005 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Vitruvius Britannicus or the British architect containing the plans, elevations and sections of the regular buildings both publick and private in Great Britain ... 1st editions, 3 volumes, vols. 1 & 2 with engraved titlepages and vol. 1 with an engraved dedication leaf, vol. 3 with a printed titlepage in red and black and a printed dedication leaf, vol. 1 with 98 other engravings (including a number on double pages); vol. 2 with 99 other engravings (some on double and some on fldg. leaves); vol. 3 with 98 engravings (some on double and some on fldg. leaves), contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, joints weak, some marginal tears (mostly in vol. 1), staining in the lower parts of all three vols., some plates browned (mostly in vol. 2), folio (50 x 33 cms), London: sold by the author, 1715, 17 & 25 [3]
Note: Two further volumes were added in 1767 and 1771, but these three volumes remain the earliest collection of the Palladian revival which established the style as the approved style of English architecture in the 18th century. " 'Palladianism' became a party label in the world of connoisseurship and England blossomed with buildings 'in the Palladian style' -two centuries after Palladio had created it. From England, the style made its way into Scotland, Ireland and America." (PMM)