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A parallel of the antient 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, Dorique, Ionique and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita the latter

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Title: A parallel of the antient 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, Dorique, Ionique and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latine, Tuscan and Composita the latter

Other titles: Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne; A parallel of architecture both ancient and moderne

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Classmark: BC Safe/FRE

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

Additional creator(s): Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472) (Other); Evelyn, John (1620-1706) (Other)

Related people: Alberti, Leon Battista; Evelyn, John

Publisher: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for John Place

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1664

Language: English

Size and medium: [24], 159 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/311377

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005856669705181

Collection group(s): English Literature

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First edition.


Bookseller's list, 1 page, on verso following p.159.


Latin verses to Evelyn by Beale printed on A1r.


Additional engraved title-page, with dedicatory portrait of Baron de Noyers, and text reading: "A paralell [sic] of architecture both ancient & moderne by Roland Freart. Sr. de Chambray."


Indexed in: Wing C1923.

Additional description

Presentation inscription signed to John Beale from John Evelyn above Imprimatur (which is dated Nov. 21. 1663), facing engraved title-page. Latin verses to Evelyn by Beale (A1r) have MS revisions, probably by Beale himself. Signature on printed title-page, Abraham Gill 1742 signature I. (or J?) Lee. Doctors Commons. 1828 on front pastedown with further notes in same hand below and on recto of flyleaf following front free endpaper and on verso of printed title-leaf. MS note on front pastedown: Repaired. Mr. Wilson 17/35 . Armorial bookplate. Bound in contemporary mottled calf rebacked in 19th century with red morocco spine labels original sides broken slightly into by corrosion corners damaged

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