BERTOTTI-SCAMOZZI, OTTAVIO. Les Bâtiments et les Desseins de André Palladio Recueillis et Illustréspar Octave Bertotti-Scamozzi. Vicenza: Jean Rossi, 1796 F 1st Edition H Hardcover Vicenza: Jean Rossi, 1796. Four volumes (complete although a fifth volume on the Roman baths was published in 1797). Small 4to, attractive new binding of handmade paste paper over boards with paper spine labels and handmade period-style endpapers. Foxing, mostly marginal but sometimes heavy. Third edition and first quarto edition; in French, published at the same time as an Italian edition and preceded by the 1786 folio edition and the original edition published in Vicenza 1776-1783. This reduced version has the same text. Rich, dark impressions of the plates , thirty four of which are folding, beautifully engraved by Antonio Mugnon. Volume I with portrait frontispiece and 52 engraved plates; Volume II with 51 plates; Volume III with 51 plates (of 52? plate 33 never bound in); Volume IV with 54 plates. Scamozzi was a practicing architect and scholar, who took part in the revival of interest in Palladio's work and built in the neo- classical style. Palladio's villas, churches and public buildings are rendered in detailed drawings, plans, facades and elevations. Berlin Catalogue 2722; Brunet IV, 321; Fowler 231 - all the first folio edition. Price: USD 2,750.00 other currencies   order no. 003328    inquire

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