Andrea Palladio, The First Book of Architecture (1668)
Date
1668
Author
Book title
The First Book of Architecture, By Andrea Palladio. Translated out of Italian: With an Appendix Touching Doors and Windows, by Dr Le Muet Architect to the French King: Translated out of French by G.R. Also Rules and Demonstrations, with several Designs for the Framing of any manner of Roofs either above pitch or under pitch, whether Square or Bevel, never Published before. With designes of Floors of Variety of small pieces of Wood, lately made in the Pallace of the Queen Mother, at Sommerset-House; A curiosity never practised in England before
Edition
second
Publication place
London
Printer
J. M.
Publisher
G. Richards and Samuel Thomson
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
architecture
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Artificial Stones, are from their form commonly called ?Quadrells; These are made of a chalkie, whitish, and pliable earth; you must by all means avoid that which is gravelly and sandy; the earth must be digged in Autumn, and tempered in Winter, and so they may be well made in the Spring; But if necessity forces you to make them in the Winter or Summer, cover them in Winter with dry sand, and in Summer with straw, when made, they require a longer time to dry; and 'tis best that they dry in the shade, so that not only the outside, but the middle and all parts may be equally hardned, which cannot be done in less then two years. They are made bigger or less according to the quality of the building, and the use to which they are intended; Therefore the Ancients made their bricks for publick and great buildings, larger then for small and private. The bigger sort ought to be hollowed in many places, that so they may dry and bake the better. (pp. 4-5)
sample: Artificial Stones, are from their form commonly called ?Quadrells; These are made of a chalkie, whitish, and pliable earth; you must by all means avoid that which is gravelly and sandy; the earth must be digged in Autumn, and tempered in Winter, and so they may be well made in the Spring; But if necessity forces you to make them in the Winter or Summer, cover them in Winter with dry sand, and in Summer with straw, when made, they require a longer time to dry; and 'tis best that they dry in the shade, so that not only the outside, but the middle and all parts may be equally hardned, which cannot be done in less then two years. They are made bigger or less according to the quality of the building, and the use to which they are intended; Therefore the Ancients made their bricks for publick and great buildings, larger then for small and private. The bigger sort ought to be hollowed in many places, that so they may dry and bake the better. (pp. 4-5)
Alston
XVIII.II.316
Wing
P205
Other editions
1663: Wing P204a; Alston XVIII.II.315 (no images in EEBO);
1676: Wing P206; Alston XVIII.II.317;
1683: Wing P207; Alston XVIII.II.318;
1693: Wing P208; Alston XVIII.II.319;
1700: Wing P209; Alston XVIII.II.320
1676: Wing P206; Alston XVIII.II.317;
1683: Wing P207; Alston XVIII.II.318;
1693: Wing P208; Alston XVIII.II.319;
1700: Wing P209; Alston XVIII.II.320
