The architect Andrea Palladio's literary masterwork, the treatise I quattro libri dell'architettura, begun in 1555, profoundly influenced Western architecture.
This illustration presents a plan and an elevation of Palladio's Villa La Rotonda, just outside Vicenza. The design is for a completely symmetrical building with a square plan around a central circular hall with a dome. Each of the four facades has a portico.
1st ed. of the four books in 1 vol.
Books 2-4 have separate t.p.
Mellon no.: L 44.75.
Signatures: vol. 1: A² B-I⁴; vol. 2: 2A-2K⁴; vol. 3: 3A-3F⁴; vol. 4: 4A-4R⁴ (2K4 and 4R4 blanks); 4F1 missigned 4E1.