Particulières, des Grands Chemins, des Ponts, des Places Publiques, des Xystes, des Basiliques, & des Temples. A
Paris: de l’Imprimerie de
Edme Martin,
1650.
First Edition of this translation. Folio. 4 vol. in 1, with engraved titles; engraved illustrations. No copy was available for
collation.
This edition not in Brunet and not in Graesse.
Kimball, page 98.
For a note on Palladio, see no. 4175 above.
Roland Frerard, Sieur de Chambrai, d. 1676, French architect, was the translator into French of this book. He translated other books on architecture, and was
himself the author of a
Parallèle de l’Architecture antique et moderne
, published in 1650.
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ii. PERRAULT,
Claude.
A Treatise of the Five Orders of Columns in Architecture, viz. Toscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. Wherein the
Proportions and Characters of the Members of their several Pedestals, Columns and Entablatures, are distinctly consider’d,
with respect to the Practice of the Antients and Moderns. Also a most Natural, Easie and Practicable Method laid down, for
determining the most minute Part in all the Orders, without a Fraction. To which is Annex’d, A Discourse concerning Pilasters:
and of several Abuses introduc’d into Architecture. Engraven on Six
Folio Plates of the several Orders, adorn’d with Twenty-Four Borders, as many Initial Letters, and a like number of Tail-Pieces,
by John Sturt. Written in
French by Claude Perrault, of the Royal Academy of Paris, Author of y
e Celebrated Comment on Vitruvius. Made
English by John James of Greenwich.
Second Edition. To which is added, an Alphabetical Explanation of all the Terms in Architecture, which occur in this Work.
London: printed for
John Senex,
Will
m. Taylor
,
Will
m. and John Innys
and
John Osborne,
mdccxxii
. [1722.]
Folio. 83 leaves, full page plates and engravings in the text. No copy was available for collation.
This edition not in Graesse.
Kimball, page 98 (the date 1708 is a misprinting for 1722).
For a note on Perrault, see no. 4173 above.
John Sturt, 1658-1730, English engraver, made the illustrations for a large number of the religious and artistic publications of the
time.
John James, d. 1746, architect, of Greenwich, England. In 1705 he was appointed clerk of the works at Greenwich Hospital, and worked
under Wren, Vanbrugh and others. He was master-carpenter at St. Paul’s Cathedral and later surveyor of Westminster Abbey.
He designed many churches and wrote a number of books. The first edition of this translation of Perrault was published in
1708.
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iii. DELORME,
Philibert.
Novvelles Inventions povr bien bastir et a petits Fraiz, trovvees n’Agveres par Philibert De L’orme Lyonnois, Architecte, Conseiller & Aumosnier ordinaire du feu Roy Henry, & Abbé de S. Eloy lez Noyon. A
Paris: de l’Imprimerie de
Hierosme de Marnef, &
Guillaume Cauellat, au mont S. Hilarie à l’enseigne du Pelican,
1576.
Folio. Plates and illustrations; no copy was available for collation.
Brunet II, 578.
Graesse II, 355.
Kimball, page 93.
Philibert Delorme, 1515?-1570, French architect, studied in Italy, where he was employed by Pope Paul III. On his return to France he was first
employed by Cardinal Du Bellay, and later by Henri II and Charles IX. Delorme built a number of chateaux in France, including
those of St. Maur and Anet, and the Tuileries were built from his designs. Delorme is considered one of the great masters
of the Renaissance.
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