Palladio (Andrea) I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, 4 parts in 1, each part with woodcut title, numerous woodcut illustrations, most full-page, with blank 2K4 at end of part II and blank 4R4 at end of part IV, old ink inscription of George Sandford 1776 at head of title crossed out and another of Thomas Cundy with old manuscript note to margin of p.34 in Book 1, two early ink inscriptions to final blank crossed out, first title soiled and stained with a few old minor tears & repairs and reinforced at fore-edge, some other soiling and staining particularly towards end, contemporary vellum, spine titled in ink, rubbed and soiled, recased, new endpapers, [BAL 2385; Fowler 214], folio, Venice, Bartolomeo Carampello, 1601.

⁂ Third edition of Palladio’s celebrated treatise on architecture, its text a close resetting of that of the second edition of 1581, and with the woodcut illustrations printed from the original woodblocks used for both the first edition of 1570 and that of 1581. By this time the blocks were somewhat affected by woodworm but Palladio's original illustrations were so highly regarded that the blocks continued to be used for editions printed in Venice in 1616 and 1642, and in Paris as late as 1650.

George Sandford, possibly 3rd Baron Mount Sandford (1756-1846), a member of the Irish House of Commons in the 1780s & '90s, or a contemporary George Sandford (died 1795), a cavalry officer in the British army.

Thomas Cundy senior (1765-1825), architect with a significant early nineteenth century London-based practice.