Lot 22
Palladio, Andrea
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The architecture of A. Palladio, in four books... revis'd, design'd and publish'd by Giacomo Leoni, a Venetian... the third edition corrected, with notes and remarks of Inigo Jones. London: A. Ward, S. Birt, D. Browne [& others], 1742, 2 volumes, large folio, engraved allegorical frontispiece by B. Picart after Sebastiano Riccio, engraved portrait of the author by Picart after Paolo Veronese, title in vol.1 printed in red and black, 215 engravings on 207 sheets, 15 double-page, by John Harris, Bernard Picart, Michael Vandergucht and John Cole, contemporary calf, head and tail of spines repaired, joints cracked, a few light spots
Footnote
Note: This edition is the third and best edition of Leoni's English edition of Palladio; for the first time it includes notes taken from Inigo Jones's annotated copy which had recently been deposited at Worcester College, Oxford. Harris 685; this edition not in Fowler