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De architectura, or On Architecture in English (published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written around 15 BC by the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio as a guide for building projects.
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Edited by Giovanni Giocondo.
Printing variously attributed to Guillaume Huyon (cf. Graesse) or to Scipion de Gabiano (cf. Baudrier, Bibl. lyonnaise, v. 7, p. 165-167).
Numbers 81-96 omitted in foliation.
Illustration on leaf 60 printed upside down.
Includes index.
Fisher copy: Leaf 1 (t.p.), leaves 15 and 22 (3rd group) wanting; t.p. information supplied from Fowler architectural collection. Ex libris John Roland Abbey. In box.
Fisher copy: A contemporary Netherlandish panel stamp binding, sewn on 4 raised leather thongs, laced in perpendicular to the spine. Vellum pastedowns; plain white paper flyleaves. Red, green, and yellow silk double endbands (added). Red textblock edges. Full bound dark brown calf over pasteboard, with some repairs. Covers finished in blind with 2-line fillet to form a large central panel, containing a pictorial panel stamp depicting St. John the Baptist, and St. Michael. Spine finished with blind 2-line fillets forming panels, and a 4-line fillet at head and tail; lines on each side of bands continued over to covers forming tie-downs.Traces of two pairs of ties.
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