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PALLADIO, Andrea (1508-1580). Fabbriche' Antiche' da ... Palladio ... date in luce da Riccardo Conte di Burlington. London: 1730.
2° (508 x 340mm). Engraved throughout, printed in bistre. Title, 'All.. Lettore' leaf with decorative headpiece and 24 plates (16 double-page) by P.Foudrinier after Palladio or Isaac Ware, 14 of the plates with 'roulette' shading. Extra-illustrated with a related 3pp ALS from Lord Burlington to Sir Andrew Fountaine tipped-in at front. (Title, text leaf and 10 plates browned, two plates with small wormholes in lower margin.) Contemporary English diced russia gilt, covers with decorative borders of fillets and roll-tools, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, blue morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with repeat decoration built up from various small tools, overstamped elephant crest at foot of spine, g.e. Provenance: Richard Boyle, 3rd EARL OF BURLINGTON (1695-1753, early 19th-century note: 'This large paper Copy, was a present from the Earl of Burlington to'); Sir Andrew Fountaine (binding).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE. The letter (dated 'Turin Nov: 6') appears to confirm that Lord Burlington acquired the original drawings for this work whilst travelling in Italy: 'Cornici [?] are so scarce since you drained Italy, that I cou'd find nothing but some tables at Genoua and some drawings of Palladio at Venice'. The tone of the letter is friendly (Sir Andrew is addressed as 'Dear knight'), and good humoured (Lord Burlington was forced to sleep in a chair in Vicenza as the one remaining bed was 'so bad, that no creature but a frenchman wou'd have gone into it'). Sir Andrew Fountaine visited Italy twice, the second time staying for nearly three years in Rome and Florence. Lord Burlington 'before he attained his majority spent several years in Italy' (DNB). Fowler 227; Cicognara 597.
2° (508 x 340mm). Engraved throughout, printed in bistre. Title, 'All.. Lettore' leaf with decorative headpiece and 24 plates (16 double-page) by P.Foudrinier after Palladio or Isaac Ware, 14 of the plates with 'roulette' shading. Extra-illustrated with a related 3pp ALS from Lord Burlington to Sir Andrew Fountaine tipped-in at front. (Title, text leaf and 10 plates browned, two plates with small wormholes in lower margin.) Contemporary English diced russia gilt, covers with decorative borders of fillets and roll-tools, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, blue morocco lettering-piece in one, the others with repeat decoration built up from various small tools, overstamped elephant crest at foot of spine, g.e. Provenance: Richard Boyle, 3rd EARL OF BURLINGTON (1695-1753, early 19th-century note: 'This large paper Copy, was a present from the Earl of Burlington to'); Sir Andrew Fountaine (binding).
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE. The letter (dated 'Turin Nov: 6') appears to confirm that Lord Burlington acquired the original drawings for this work whilst travelling in Italy: 'Cornici [?] are so scarce since you drained Italy, that I cou'd find nothing but some tables at Genoua and some drawings of Palladio at Venice'. The tone of the letter is friendly (Sir Andrew is addressed as 'Dear knight'), and good humoured (Lord Burlington was forced to sleep in a chair in Vicenza as the one remaining bed was 'so bad, that no creature but a frenchman wou'd have gone into it'). Sir Andrew Fountaine visited Italy twice, the second time staying for nearly three years in Rome and Florence. Lord Burlington 'before he attained his majority spent several years in Italy' (DNB). Fowler 227; Cicognara 597.