The architecture of A. Palladio, in four books : containing a short treatise of the five orders, and the most necessary observations concerning all sorts of building : as also the different construction of private and publick houses, high-ways, bridges, market-plates, xystes, and temples, with their plans, sections, and uprights
This 1742 London edition of Andrea Palladio's architectural treatise, published by several booksellers and aimed at builders and architects, presents the classical orders and building designs through engraved plans and sections. The four plates show cut-away elevations of colonnaded temples and a wall of coffered panelling with niches, drawn in fine parallel hatching on pale paper, offering a designer clear models of column proportion, rhythm, and cross-section layout.
