Book design

SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. The Architecture of Andrea Palladio in Four Books (London, 1715), ed. Giacomo Leoni, subscribers' list [recto] NOTES: This English edition of Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura contains plates copied from the first Italian edition, published in 1570 and includes additional 'notes and observations' by Inigo Jones.

SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. The Architecture of Andrea Palladio in Four Books (London, 1715), ed. Giacomo Leoni, subscribers' list [verso] NOTES: This English edition of Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura contains plates copied from the first Italian edition, published in 1570 and includes additional 'notes and observations' by Inigo Jones.

SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. The First book of Andrea Palladio's architecture (London, 1742), frontispiece NOTES: This portrait of Palladio appears as the frontispiece to Isaac WareÔÇÖs publication in English in 1742 of PalladioÔÇÖs first book from his Quattro libri dell' architettura. This follows the publication in 1737-1738 of Ware's English translation of all four books. The design of the portrait in profile in an oval decorative cartouche was by William Kent and it was engraved by Ware.

NOTES: This bookplate was used in Voysey's copy of Percival Chubb, Selected and edited essays of Montaigne translated by Florio (London, 1893)

NOTES: This bookplate was used in Voysey's copy of Allan Cunningham, Lives of eminent British painters with an introduction by William Sharp (London, 1886).

NOTES: The RIBA insignia was designed by Donaldson in 1837.

SOURCE: MARS Group. New architecture: an exhibition of the elements of modern architecture (London, 1938), front cover NOTES: The exhibition was held at the Royal Academy in London.

SOURCE: MARS Group. New architecture: an exhibition of the elements of modern architecture (London, 1938), back cover NOTES: The exhibition was held at the Royal Academy in London.

SOURCE: Charles Garnier: Le nouvel opera de Paris, vol. II (Paris, 1880)

SOURCE: Karel Teige. Nejmensi byt ( L'habitation minimum, Die Kleinstwohnung) (Prague, 1932), cover

SOURCE: Hotels de voyageurs (Paris, 1931), vol. 2, cover

SOURCE: G. B. Piranesi. Lettere di giustificazione (Rome, 1758), presentation plate NOTES: The plate has a print of a wreath made of a serpent and feathers, interwoven with a square frame of quill, dividers, pencil and paintbrush. Within this square frame Piranesi has written in ink, the following dedication, 'Per l'Illmo Signore il Sig. Abate Venuti Presidte. delle Antichita Romane.'