92c. Palladio, Andrea.
Vol. I. THE / ARCHITECTURE / OF / A. PALLADIO; / IN
FOUR BOOKS. / CONTAINING / A short Treatise of the Five Orders,
and / the most necessary Observations concerning / all sorts of
Building: / AS ALSO / The different Construction of Private and
Publick Houses, / High-ways, Bridges, Market-places, Xystes,
and / Temples, with their Plans, Sections, and Uprights. / Revis'd, Design'd,
and Publish'd / By GIACOMO LEONI, a Venetian, / Architect
to His Most Serene Highness, the Late / ELECTOR PALATINE. /
Translated from the Italian Original. / THE THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED.
/ With NOTES and REMARKS of / INIGO JONES: /
Now first taken from his Original Manuscript in
Worcester College Library,
Oxford. / AND ALSO, / An APPENDIX, containing the
Antiquities
of
ROME. / Written by
A. PALLADIO. / And a
Discourse of
the FIRES of the Ancients. / Never before Translated. / IN TWO
VOL UMES. /
LONDON: / Printed for A.
Ward, in
Little-Britain; S.
Birt, in
Ave-Mary-Lane; D.
Browne, / without
Temple-Bar; C.
Davis,
in
Pater-noster-Row; T.
Osborne in /
Gray's-Inn; and A.
Millar,
against St.
Clement's Church in the
Strand. / M. DCC. XLII.
and
THE / ARCHITECTURE / OF / A. PALLADIO; / BOOK the SECOND.
/ CONTAINING / The Designs of several Houses which he
has / Built either in Town, or in the Country / WITH / Some other
Designs of the Manner of Building among / the Greeks and Romans.
/ Revis'd, Design'd, and Publish'd / By GIACOMO LEONI, a
Venetian, Architect to His Most / Serene Highness, the Late / ELECTOR
PALATINE. / Translated from the Italian Original. / With
NOTES, by INIGO JONES. / . . .
and
THE / ARCHITECTURE / . . . / BOOK the THIRD. / Wherein is
Treated of / Ways, Streets, Bridges, Squares, Basilicas or Courts / of
Justice, Xistes or Places of Exercise &c. / The Whole Revis'd, Design'd,
and Publish'd / . . . / VOL. I.
Folio. Engraved frontispiece (1 leaf); two-color title page ([i]); advertisement
(iii); Leoni's preface to the second edition and biographical
note on Palladio (iv); engraved portrait of Palladio (1 leaf); Palladio's
preface (v-vii); text (1-37); Jones's notes (38-40); 53 engraved plates;
title page Book II ([41]); text (43-69); Jones's notes (70-72); 61 engraved
plates; title page, Book III ([73]); preface (75-77); text (78102);
Jones's notes (103-4); 22 engraved plates.
Vol. II. THE / ARCHITECTURE / . . . / BOOK the FOURTH. /
Wherein is Treated / Of the Ancient Temples in Rome, and some others
/ to be seen in Italy, and other parts of Europe. / . . . / VOLUME
the SECOND. / . . .
and
APPENDIX. / THE / ANTIQUITIES / OF / ROME. / BY / ANDREA
PALLADIO. / To which is added, / A Discourse of the FIRES
of the Ancients. / Now first Translated from the Italian. / LONDON:
/ . . . / VOL. II.
Folio. Title page, Book IV ([1]); preface (3-4); text (5-41); Jones's
notes (42-53); table of contents (54-56); 104 engraved plates; title
page, Appendix ([57]); note to reader ([58]); text (59-100).
At last it was possible for Leoni to include in this edition the notes left
by Inigo Jones, for:
The late Dr. Clarke, Member of Parliament for the University of Oxford,
being possess'd of an old Edition of Palladio's Architecture, (on which were
wrote, by the Famous Inigo Jones, Notes and Remarks on the Plates;) bequeath'd
it, with the rest of his Library, to Worcester-College. The Proprietors
being inform'd of this, apply'd to the President of the said College, for
Liberty to get a Copy of those Notes and Remarks. This Favour was granted,
on condition a Person well skilled in Architecture should be sent thither. Mr.
James Leoni was prevail'd upon to undertake this, went to Oxford accordingly,
and transcribed the Notes and Remarks from the Manuscript-Copy of
INIGO JONES. Some few of these are placed in the Side-margin, and the
rest (which make several Sheets) are added at the end of each Book. This,
no doubt, will be esteemed a very great Advantage to this Edition, by all who
are Lovers of Architecture, and have a value for the Memory of the Celebrated
Architect who made the Remarks. [I, iii]
As for the appendix, we are told: "At the end of the Second Volume
is added, by way of Appendix, a Tract written by A. Palladio, intitled,
The Antiquities of Rome, &c. now first translated from the Italian" (I,
iii).
Palladio says of Rome:
The consideration that almost every body is highly desirous to know and enquire
into the Antiquities and sumptuous Works of this most celebrated City,
have incited me to compile this small Treatise, in the concisest manner possible,
out of the best ancient and modern Writers, who have treated this Subject
at large. . . . Read therefore this new Work of mine over and over, if you
are desirous to taste that exquisite and amazing pleasure, which is to be
reap'd from a perfect Knowledge of so great a City as Rome, and so famous
for her magnificent Structures, Nobility, and Renown. [II, 58]
The text of the Four Books, though reset, is identical with the
English text of both the 1715 and 1721 editions. The plates are also the
same. The remarks of Inigo Jones are mostly corrections of dimensions
or usages of classical elements by Palladio. It is said Jones traveled about
the Vicentine area carrying his copy of Palladio with him as a reference.
Kimball (p. 97) says Jefferson probably had a copy of this edition
before 1769. That copy was sold to Congress. It was not ordered for the
University. The library's present set is a recent acquisition, the gift of
the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
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