Author: PALLADIO, ANDREA
Title: The Four Books of Architecture
Description: New York, Dover Publications. 1965. (ISBN: 0486213080). Soft Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a name to front endpaper. Introduction by Adolf K. Placzek, Columbia University. This is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by Isaac Ware in 1738 to which has been added a new introduction for this edition. Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Renaissance. The Four Books of Architecture offers a compendium of Palladio's art and of the ancient Roman structures which inspired him. The text is illustrated by over 200 magnificently engraved plates, showing edifices, either of Palladio's own design or reconstructed by him from classical ruins and contemporary accounts. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VERY LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.225 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 25. Very Good/No Jacket.

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