(ARCHITECTURE) Palladio Andrea I Quattro Libri dell Architet

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(ARCHITECTURE.) Palladio, Andrea. I Quattro Libri dell' Architettura. 4 parts in 1. Each part with a woodcut title-page, 158 full-page and 62 smaller illustrations. Small folio, contemporary vellum, heavily darkened, slightly bowed with lower joints starting; first part with toned title-page and creasing to corners, light dampstain to lower outer corners through F2, otherwise fairly bright and clean; contemporary owner's signature on front blank, ex-collection architect Charles Ewing, with his bookplate. Venice: Bartolomeo Carampello, 1616

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This is technically the fourth edition, with a new typesetting of the 1601 edition, by the same printer, with different woodcut initials. The plates are worn impressions from the originals of the 1570 edition. They were used for the final time in the French edition of 1650--Fowler 215.