![]() Villa Foscari (1559) publishing of Palladios work Quattro Libri dellArchitettura (The Four Books of Architecture), stretched his influence far beyond his home country Italy. ![]() A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern. Villa Foscari (also La Malcontenta) was among the mid-16th century designs of Palladio that employed this renowned building format. Site is running on IP address 75.119.211.243, host name (Brea United States) ping response time 17ms Good ping. The plates are careful copies Ware notes in his preface that he has 'kept to proportions and measures, by exactly tracing all the plates from his originals, and engraved them with my own hands'. domain provided by at (16 Years, 253 Days ago), expired at (0 Years, 111 Days left). Ware's translation of the text is 'strict and literal' and was corrected and revised by Lord Burlington himself. Provenance: John Earl of Bute (armorial bookplate) 2nd Marquess of Bute (Luton Library armorial bookplate).įIRST EDITION of Ware's translation, produced in direct competition with Benjamin Cole's very imperfect edition of 1735. (Small tear to lower margin of plate numbered XXIII in book I.) Later calf (neatly rebacked, slightly scuffed). ![]() subscribers' list, engraved title, three section titles, one head- and one tailpiece, 8 illustrations and 205 plates. The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture.
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