PALLADIO (Andrea): - Le Terme dei Romani diegnate da Andrea Palladio e Ripubblicate con La Giunta di Alcune Osservazioni da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi giusta l'esemplare de Lord Conte di Burlington Impress in Londra l'Anno 1732

In Vicenza Per Giovanni Rossi. 1797. Small 4to, 237 x 178 mms., pp. 55, engraved frontispiece, 17 folding engraved plates, 8 full-page engraved plates, contemporary marbled boards, paper spine of marbled paper; spine defective with cords exposed, and covers holding on for dear life. The title-page refers to the publication in 1730 of Fabriche Antiche disegnate da Andrea Palladion Vicentinoi by Richard Boyle, Third Earl of Burlington and Fourth Earl of Cork (1694 - 1753), the architect, collector, and patron of the arts. Alexander Pope responded with his epistle "Of Taste: An Epistle to the Earl of Burlington" in 1731, the fourth of the so-called Moral Essays, or Epistles to Several Persons. The plates here, of the plans and elevations of the Roman Baths, were engraved by Antonio Mugnoni after drawings by Palladio.

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