Frontispiece to Hoppus and Cole's English translated edition of Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (Book I), inscribed with a handwritten note recording its presentation to the RIBA's collections by Robert Upton in 1895

SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. Andrea Palladio's architecture, in four books (1732-1735), ed. Edward Hoppus & Benjamin Cole, Book I, p. 1 (frontispiece) NOTES: This English edition of Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura contains plates copied from the first Italian edition, published in 1570, and incorporates additional elements relating to the work of Inigo Jones and others. The translated edition shown here was published under the patronage of Richard Boyle, Lord Burlington.