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PALLADIO, Andrea. Les quatre livres de l'Architecture... Mis en François. Translated by Roland Fréart de Chambray. Paris: Edme Martin, 1650.
2° (365 x 253mm.). Letterpress title within elaborate architectural woodcut surround, the surround repeated around the three section titles, numerous woodcut illustrations, most full-page (some old dampstaining, repaired tears or paperfaults to blank margins of C2, G4, P2, 2B2, 2C4, 2T2 and 2T3). Old mottled calf (corners repaired but worn, joints spliting, later endpapers.
FIRST EDITION OF BOOKS I-IV IN FRENCH. The woodcuts are from the 1570 Italian edition, and the book represents 'one of the earliest examples of archaistic printing, since format, ornament and type simulate sixteenth-century French bookmaking.': Fowler 218; Berlin Kat. 2596.
2° (365 x 253mm.). Letterpress title within elaborate architectural woodcut surround, the surround repeated around the three section titles, numerous woodcut illustrations, most full-page (some old dampstaining, repaired tears or paperfaults to blank margins of C2, G4, P2, 2B2, 2C4, 2T2 and 2T3). Old mottled calf (corners repaired but worn, joints spliting, later endpapers.
FIRST EDITION OF BOOKS I-IV IN FRENCH. The woodcuts are from the 1570 Italian edition, and the book represents 'one of the earliest examples of archaistic printing, since format, ornament and type simulate sixteenth-century French bookmaking.': Fowler 218; Berlin Kat. 2596.