Fréart, Roland; Evelyn, John; Alberti, Leon Battista; Wotton, Henry [Hrsg.]: A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern: in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another ; the three Greek orders, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise ; and the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter (London, 1733)

TO THE

Most Serene MAJESTY

o F

C H A R L E S H.

INCE the Great Auguftus vouchsafed
to Patronize a Work of this Nature,
which was Dedicated to him by Vitru-
vius, I had no reason to apprehend,
Your Majesiy would reprove these Ad-
drejses of mine, if, in presenting You
with those Antiquities on which that
Excellent Majier formed his Studies9 I
intituled Your Majejiy to a Work, so little inferior to it,
and so worthy to go in paragon with it. And., indeed, to
whom could I more aptly Inscribe a Discourse of Building,
than to so -Royal a Builder, whose August Attempts have al-
ready