Palladio, Libri dell'architettura Palladio, A. I quattro libri dell'architettura. 4 Tle. in 1 Bd.

Palladio, Libri dell'architettura Palladio, A. I quattro libri dell'architettura. 4 Tle. in 1 Bd. Venedig, D. de Franceschi, 1570. Fol. Mit 4 gleichen Holzschn.-Titelbord. u. über 200 vielfach blattgr. Textholzschn. 67; 66 (recte 78); 46 S., 1 Bl.; 128 S., 4 Bll. (o. d. w. Bll. am Schluß von Tl. 2 u. 4). Ldr. d. 19. Jh. mit Gold- u. Blindpräg. PMM 92; Mortimer 352; Fowler 212; Millard IV, 65; Ornamentstichkat. Bln. 2592; Cicognara 594. - Erste vollständige Ausgabe aller 4 Bücher, zuerst im gleichen Jahr zweibändig ("I due libri dell'antichità" - "I due libri dell'architettura") erschienen. - Eng beschnitten, Kolumnentitel teilw. angeschnitten. Etwas fleckig u. mit Fingerspuren, teilw. wasserrandig, Titel mit hinterlegtem Stempel verso (schwach durchscheinend), Widmung mit Stempellöschung verso, einige Initialen mit Tinte ausgemalt. First edition of the four books together. With 4 repeated title-borders and more than 200 woodcuts in the text, mostly full-page. "Palladio was one of the five great protagonists of the Italian Renaissance, along with Alberti, Serlio, Vignola and Scamozzi. While his works had considerable effect throughout Europe, it was England that he was specially influential, and from England to this country in the works of Thomas Jefferson" (Fowler). - A copy with short margins, headlines partly cropped, some spotting and thumbing, occasional dampstaining, stamp to verso of title covered with paper (some shine-through), erased stamp to verso of dedication leaf, a few initials painted with brown ink. 19th cent. brown morocco, tooled in blind and gilt.