FREART, Roland, Sieur de Chambray (ca 1606-1676). A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern, in a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have written upon the Five Orders... John Evelyn, translator. London: T.W. for J. Walthoe and others, 1733.

Folio (350 x 221 mm). Title -page printed in red and black with woodcut vignette, 40 copperplate engravings by Hertoch, engraved head-and-tail pieces. (3 x 1-in. loss to upper right corner of title-page repaired, a few plates with repaired tears occasionally just crossing the image border, minor dampstaining in lower gutter.) Modern calf-backed marbled boards gilt, edges sprinkled red (spine slightly sunned, a touch of wear to extremities). Provenance: Bryan Reynolds (early signature); George Durant (1731-1780) British politician (signature, 1759 and armorial plate laid in).

Fourth edition, preceded by the first edition in French of 1650 and the first English edition of 1664. "The preface to the work strikes a new note in English architectural theory. The true model of architecture resides in antiquity, but not all examples of antique architecture are now considered worthy of imitation. The essential can be grasped only after painstaking study and analysis of the originals, and a firm rejection of all distortions and developments. This meant, in effect, that only the Greek models were to be upheld" (Millard). See Millard British 19 and ESTC R19331 (for the first English edition 1664).

Property from the Fred and Kay Krehbiel Collection