• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, Viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and DE Lorme, Compared with one another. The Three Greek Orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, comprise the First Part of this Treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the Latter. Written in French by Roland Freart, Sieur de Chambray. Made English for the Benefit of Builders. To which is added, An account of architects and architecture, in an Historical and Etymological Explanation of certain Terms particularly affected by Architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of statues. By John Evelyn, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Other titles: Parallèle de l'architecture antique et de la moderne. <engl.>
  • Contributor: Fréart, Roland sieur de Chambray [Author];
  • imprint: London: printed by T. W. for J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, and A. Ward ; W. Mears, F. Clay, B. Motte, and D. Browne, MDCCXXXIII. [1733]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Issue: The fourth edition, with the addition of The elements of architecture: collected by Sir Henry Wotton
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([24],xxiv,xxix-xxxviii,115,[1];[6],53,[3],61-74p); ill; 2°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Architecture Early works to 1800 ; Architecture Orders Early works to 1800 ; Sculpture Early works to 1800
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
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  • Footnote: 'An account of architects and architecture' has separate pagination and register
    Braces in imprint
    English Short Title Catalog, T117369
    Preface text is continuous despite the pagination
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    Titlepage in red and black
    Translated and edited by Evelyn