PALLADIO (ANDREA)


Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio. Raccolti ed illustrati da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, FIRST EDITION, 4 vol., text in Italian and French, engraved portrait frontispiece, 206 engraved plates only (of 210) by Davide Rossi, Gaetano Testolin and others, some double-page, first 3 leaves and 2 plates repaired (with loss to text of Preface), some waterstaining touching platemarks, particularly heavy in vols. 1 and 4 with some blooming, modern half leather [Berlin Cat. 2722; Fowler 231], folio (510 x 360mm.), Vicenza, Francesco Modena, 1776-1783
|The first edition of a monumental work on Palladio's architecture written by Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, a practicing architect in Vicenza who provides a history of each of the buildings with measured plans, elevations and details.