Andrea Palladio's first book of architecture : with all the plates, exactly copyed from the first Italian edition, printed in Venice, anno 1570
Palladio's first book of architecture, a 1728 London reprint of the 1570 Venetian edition by Andrea Palladio, is a treatise on the classical orders for builders and students of design. Its plates show columns, arches, capitals and entablatures drawn in precise line with measurement markings, offering designers clean structural outlines and classical proportion studies.
