Brown boards with stamped lettering on cover and gold gilt lettering on

Brown boards with stamped lettering on cover and gold gilt lettering on spine, glossy color-photographic dust jacket with white lettering. 226 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "The Palladian Ideal presents several of Palladio's most important country villas, as well as well-known later works by others that continue the Palladian tradition, including Colen Campbell's Mereworth Castle and Lord Burlington's Chiswick House in England, Clause-Nicolas Ledoux's Salt Works in France, Karl von Fischer's Prinz-Karl-Palais in Germany, and Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda at the University of Virginia. Also featured at two of Palladio's antique sources, the Roman Forum and Pantheon. For the twenty-two buildings shown, renowned architectural historian Joseph Rykwert provides and introduction and commentary to Roberto Schezen's spelendid photogrpahy."-dust jacket description.

Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover clean with minor shelfwear. Interior clean, binding tight. Jacket gently rubbed.

Hardcover with dustjacket. Cover clean with minor shelfwear. Interior clean, binding tight. Jacket gently rubbed.

Book Photography by Roberto Schezen. Front cover: Kent Mereworth Castle. Back

Book Photography by Roberto Schezen. Front cover: Kent Mereworth Castle. Back cover: Chapel dome, Chateau d'Anet, Dreux. Distributed by St. Martin Press. Printed in Italy. Published by Rizzoli, New York. 228 pp. Brown boards, square 4to. Dust jacket near fine, contents fine. Floor plans, some text, b/w captioned illustrations, b/w & color, captioned photographs.