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)

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The PREFACE.
Reader,
EFORE I do altogether resign this <Book^ to thy
Judgment, I advertife thee, that 'twas not my De~
sign in compiling it to teach any Man, much lefs
yet to fatisfy thofe Criticdl Spirits which the World
so much abounds with : Nor is the Publick at all
beholden to me $ I have no Thought of obliging
it, an envious, and evil Judge: In a Word, being
nothing inelin'd to give them Satisfaction, I have
eafily gratified my Labour with the desired
Succefs. My principal Drift was, Firft, to fatisfy myfelf 5 nor has it cosl me
much Trouble 3 though we fometimes sind certain Humours that are
more averfe, and dissicult to themfelves, than they would prove to others :
For my part, I do not so use to treat mysels: We have Enemies enough
befides 3 and whatever I were able to do, I expecr. that Men should pre-
lently say os me, all that Jealoufy does commonly fugged in reproach os
Novelty : That being no Jrtifan, it did not become me to prefcribe to
others the Rules of their Myfiery ; That I teach nothing particular and extra-
ordinary here : That the Books srom whence I have gather'd all that I (ay,
being common, and much ampler than mine, there was no need to have
B icurnm'd