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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Bethunes Rare Books
• Sale Date:
  15 Apr 2013 ~ 10am (NZ time)
• Lot #:
  260
• Lot Description:
  Hoppus, Edward (editor). Andrea Palladio's architecture in four books ; containing a dissertation on the five orders and most necessary observations r
  London : Benjamin Cole, John Wilcox 1736, Fo. 250 p. illus. (several folding). Re-bound in marbled cloth with leather spine. New endpapers. Inscription to fly-leaf. Some wear and foxing to contents. Exquisitely illustrated. Translated from the original Italian by the the editor. This copy includes an extra title page, featuring a coat of arms and dedication to Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork. Lord Burlington was born in Yorkshire into an incredibly wealthy Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. Often referred to as 'the architect Earl', he was instrumental in the revival of Palladian architecture in both Great Britain and Ireland. This is a slightly revised version of an edition that had been published a year earlier. The 1735 publication was a plagiarization of Book 1 from the Campbell edition (1729), books 2, 3 and 4 from the Leoni edition (1721), and additional plates from Isaac Ware's 'Designs of Inigo Jones and Others' (1731). Writing two years later in support of his own translation, Isaac Ware commented that the Hoppus work was 'done with so little understanding, and so much negligence, that it cannot but give great offense to the judicious, and be of very bad consequence in misleading the unskilful, into whose hands it might happen to fall.' A strong copy of this very scarce work. G.
• Estimate:
  NZ$750 - 750
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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