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NOTES: This correspondence between Goldfinger and contractors Messrs. Leslie Bilsby Limited forms part of the Erno Goldfinger papers concerning the architect's house at Willow Road, Hampstead, London, built in 1939.

SOURCE: Vitruvius. De architectura (Rome, 1486?), p. [8-9] NOTES: This copy lacks the index and dedicatory address which precede the text and these are supplied by a 19th century owner in manuscript.

SOURCE: An Abridgment of the architecture of Vitruvius (London, 1692), frontispiece and title page

NOTES: The 1951 Festival of Britain's Architecture Exhibition was held in Poplar, East London.

NOTES: The 1951 Festival of Britain's Architecture Exhibition was held in Poplar, East London. This key for this site map indicates that the many examples of architecture on show ranged from an old people's home to churches and schools.

SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. Les Quatre livres d'architecture d'Andre Palladio (Paris, 1650), ed. Roland Freart de Chambray, p. 14 NOTES: This full French translation of Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura contains plates copied from the original Italian edition, published in 1570.

SOURCE: Leon Battista Alberti. De re aedificatoria (Paris, 1512), frontispiece NOTES: Alberti's original treatise was written in 1452. This 1512 edition was edited by Geofroy Tory.

SOURCE: Leon Battista Alberti. De re aedificatoria (Florence, 1485), p. 1 (left)

SOURCE: Leon Battista Alberti. De re aedificatoria (Florence, 1485), p. ai (right)