The Baths of the Romans Explained and Illustrated. with the Restorations of Palladio Corrected and Improved. to Which Is Prefixed, an Introductory Preface (en Inglés)
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT021409Second arabic page sequence contains a version of the text in French, with a separate titlepage: 'Description des bains ..'. In the numbering of the plates, XII and XVI are used twice; plate [I] occurs twice, facing chapter I of both the French and English texts. With an engraved frontispiece, based on that of Burlington's 'Fabbriche antiche ..', 1730, and an engraved dedication to the Earl of Bute.London: printed by George Scott: and to be had of the author, 1772. [4], iv,65, [3], iv,68p., LXXV[i.e.78]plates: ill.; 2°
