I QUATTRO LIBRI DELL'ARCHITETTURA Ne' quali, dopò un breve Trattato de'cinque ordini, e di quelli avertimenti, che sono più necessari nel fabricare; Si Tratta Delle Case Private, delle Vie, dei Ponti, dei Piazzae, dei i Xisti, & de Tempij.

Extremely early printing, only the fourth ever issued and using the plates of the original 1570 printing. The type has been re-set by the same printer of the 1581 and 1601 printings and the initials re-cut from wood as in the earlier issues. General and divisional titles within woodcut historiated architectural border, over 200 woodcut illustrations (including over 150 full page folio sized). The engravings are by Giovanni and Cristoforo Chrieger, Cristoforo Coriolano and others and derive directly from the 1570 first edition, while the text has been reorganized by Carampello and has newly cut initials and a new woodcut title-page from the 1601 edition. Folio, finely bound in handsome period antique Italian vellum, the spine with morocco label pleasingly tooled in gilt in contemporary design. A handsome binding. (68), 78, [1 blank leaf], 46, [2], 133, [colophon], (same as the 1601, except for the presence of the blank leaves KK4, and RRRR4 in this issuance). A very pleasing, large, handsome, clean and crisp copy with especially fine and dark impressions of the engravings. The textblock is solid and tight, the binding, still very strong, is in wonderful condition. An excellent and very well preserved example of this rare book.

Edizione: very rare folio printing of the original palladio, using the blocks of 1570. a very fine and handsome folio printing of palladio's great work. palladio's designs and work to this day remain the central pillar of classical architecture and all architecture which followed. sixteenth-century editions are truly scarce and retain the original sophistication and in this case, the exact replication of the prior issue.<br> ‘palladio’s lasting influence on architectural style in many parts of the world was exercised less through his actual buildings than through this, his textbook. the book is divided into four sections: orders and elementary problems, domestic building, public building and own planning and temples. palladio’s style was directly inspired by roman classical models through the writings of vitruvius and alberti. its characteristics are those of classicism: symmetry, order, fixed mathematical relations of the parts to each other and to the whole, logic and monumentality. <br> palladio followed the rules of classical roman architecture more closely than any other architect.in spite of the vogue for the baroque and the fact that palladio left no immediate successors, his book exerted a powerful influence on contemporary architecture and classical ideals until the end of the eighteenth century.<br> as a practising architect palladio worked mainly in vicenza, venice and the venetian countryside, especially along the brenta river. his villa capra (known as la rotonda) near vicenza became virtually a prototype of the palladian style, and it was widely and faithfully copied. at the end of his life he left plans for the tour de force of trompe l’oeil, the teatro olimpico in vicenza, which was finished by his pupil vincenzo scamozzi.’ pmm.<br> palladio's treatise features among the capital renaissance texts of architecture, next to alberti's, serlio's, vignola and scamozzi's. it exerted an incredible influence all over europe and great britain in particular. the first book deals with architectural orders, materials and building techniques. the second is about private houses, the third discusses civil and urban engineering, the fourth focuses on temples and similar buildings.