Author: PALLADIO Andrea
Title: Andrea Palladio's Architecture, in four books...carefully revised and redelineated by EDW. HOPPUS...and embellished with a large variety of chimney pieces collected from the works of Inigo Jones and others. (one volume with Books I and II only)
Description: London, Benjamin Cole, 1735 122pp, 27 plates bound in Book I; 33 plates bound in Book II 32x21, calf, five raised bands and glt lettering on the spine. Some wear to the binding, with top front corner heavily rubbed and bumped, owners' names in ink on fep and title page, slight splitting to rear end papers, several plates bound in the wrong places or omitted altogether (several may have been removed after binding). Incomplete, but fascinating and attractive book. A partial copy of the famous (infamous?) Cole/Hoppus edition of Palladio's Architecture. Described as "unprincipled" by Harris (688) and as "done with so much negligence" by Ware in his later and competing translation, it was published by Cole as a cheap and popular partwork to compete with Campbell's 1728 edition. The plates were copied from earlier works (Cole denied it but was found out) and the text was taken from Campbell's and Leoni's editions, reworded to avoid legal problems. The whole was presented with an elaborate dedication to Lord Burlington, whose permission had not been sought. Nonetheless it was cheap, and proved both popular and influential.Each copy of this edition seems to have a somewhat casual approach to pagination and binding; this copy includes the complete text of Books I and II, with the usual error of page 34 being numbered as 38 and page 35 numbered as 33, but some 36 plates are missing and others are placed incorrectly in the binding. An interesting, and flawed copy.

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