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A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter

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Title: A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter

Other titles: Parallele de l'architecture

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Classmark: Large Architecture B-0 FRE

Creator(s): Fréart, Roland sieur de Chambray (1606-1676)

Additional creator(s): Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472) (Other); Evelyn, John (1620-1706) (Other); Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639) (Other)

Publisher: Printed by T. W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1723

Language: English

Size and medium: 22 unnumbered pages, [i]-xxxviii, 115 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 74 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/183881

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008129619705181

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Title in red and black; title-vignette; head-and tail-pieces; initials.


Engraved frontispiece reads: A parallel of architecture both ancient & moderne, by Roland Freart, sr de Chambray.


"An account of architects and architecture" has special t.-p. and separate paging.

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