Alberti, Leon Battista: Della architettura di Leon Battista Alberti libri 10, della pittura libri 3 e della statua libro 1 / The architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in ten books, of painting in three books and of statuary in one book (uebers. von Cosimo Bartoli und Giacomo Le (London, 1726) [Cicognara, 378]

GEORGE R.
■BORGE the Second, by the Grace of God Kirs of Great Britain, Frame
and Ireland, Desender of the Faith, i$c. To all to whom these Presents shall
come, Greeting, WHEREAS James Leoni of our City of London, Gent,
hath humbly represented unto L's, that he hath with great Labour and F.x-
pence pubhihed a Work, entituled, {The Architecture os Leon Baptijìa Alberti
ten Books, of Painting in three Books, and of Statuary in one Book, tran-
slated into Italian by Cofano Bartoli, and now rirlt into Englissj, and divided into three Vo-
lumes ; as also several Dejigns of his own for Buildings both Publick and Private) And hath
therefore humbly be sought Us to grant him our Royal Priviiege and Licence for the sole
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Statute in that Behalf made and provided, grant unto him the said James Leoni, his Exe-
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our Court of St. James's the Twenty-fourth Day of March 1729-30 in the third Year os
our Reign.

By His Majcssys Command,

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HoLLEs Newcastle.