Scamozzi (Vincenzo) L'Idea della Architettura Universale, 2 parts in 1, first edition, additional engraved architectural titles incorporating portrait of the author, letterpress titles with large woodcut device, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, numerous full-page woodcut illustrations, some double-page, 44 full-page engraved illustrations, 5 double-page, with 2 blank leaves but lacking Register leaf (p.371) at end (as often), plate on p.62 of Book 6 not pasted over, first engraved title lightly soiled, otherwise an excellent clean copy, engraved bookplate of Thomas Worsley Surveyor General of His Majesty's Works, eighteenth century calf, rubbed, a few scuffs and gouges, rebacked in morocco, spine gilt, corners repaired, new endpapers, [Berlin Kat. 2605; Fowler 292; Millard Italian 123], folio, Venice, Giorgio Valentino, 1615.

⁂ After Palladio's Quattro Libri this was the most influential architectural work of the early seventeenth century.

Thomas Worsley (1711-78), of Hovingham Hall, Yorks., landowner, horse-breeder and amateur architect who was Surveyor of the Office of Works from 1760 until his death. He designed the stables at Marske Hall near Richmond, Yorks., for John Hutton and his own Hovingham Hall with its unusual entrance via a manège.