The North Prospect of Cliefden House in Buckinghamshire the Seat of the Right Hon:ble The Earl of Orkney..

by Colen Campbell, H. Hulsbergh

$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A noble British Palladian facade from Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus. Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus is considered one of the greatest eighteenth-century English architectural works. Campbell's seminal text helped establish Palladianism as the English national style and gave a unified façade to England's architectural landscape. Campbell published the first three volumes between 1715 and 1725, but the text was continued in two subsequent volumes by

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