VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus (c.70-15 B.C.). [ De architectura libri decem .] Edited by Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515). Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 22 May 1511.
VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus (c.70-15 B.C.). [ De architectura libri decem .] Edited by Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515). Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 22 May 1511. Median 2° (312 x 213mm). 123 leaves (of 124, without final blank). Four-piece woodcut title-border with dolphins, woodcut orb and cross device, outline initials within a double frame, 136 woodcut illustrations and diagrams most within a double frame. (Title and A1 with rough edges, title with marginal repair, the human figures in C6 with manuscript modesty slips pasted-in, E3 and G5 with adhesive from marginal pasted in slips showing through onto verso, some soiling, neat early marginalia, small marginal repair in the last leaf.) Full morocco by J. Haines of Liverpool, sides panelled in gilt, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins. Provenance : William Leigh and Thomas Leigh (title signature) – extensive, neat manuscript English translation and commentary in an early hand in the margins, and a few additional leaves of the same bound in. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE ONLY ARCHITECTURAL TREATISE TO SURVIVE FROM CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, considered the supreme authority by Italian Renaissance architects and the single most influential work for the later development of European architecture. The previous three editions contain diagrams only, making this the first to include non-schematic illustrations. The woodcuts depict ornament, plans, elevations, proportions of the human body, heating systems, machinery, a ship with an odometer, and siege machines, among other subjects. The title border with dolphins is itself 'one of the most influential pieces of ornamentation of the sixteenth century' (Mortimer). The 1511 edition is also the first to be edited by Fra Giocondo, a working architect, as well as an editor for the Aldine Press and an authority on classical inscriptions. Adams V-902; Fowler 393; Berlin Kat . 1798; Sander 7694; Millard Italian , 156; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 543; Cicognara 696; RIBA 3491; cf. PMM 26.
VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus (c.70-15 B.C.). [ De architectura libri decem .] Edited by Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515). Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 22 May 1511.
VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus (c.70-15 B.C.). [ De architectura libri decem .] Edited by Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515). Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 22 May 1511. Median 2° (312 x 213mm). 123 leaves (of 124, without final blank). Four-piece woodcut title-border with dolphins, woodcut orb and cross device, outline initials within a double frame, 136 woodcut illustrations and diagrams most within a double frame. (Title and A1 with rough edges, title with marginal repair, the human figures in C6 with manuscript modesty slips pasted-in, E3 and G5 with adhesive from marginal pasted in slips showing through onto verso, some soiling, neat early marginalia, small marginal repair in the last leaf.) Full morocco by J. Haines of Liverpool, sides panelled in gilt, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins. Provenance : William Leigh and Thomas Leigh (title signature) – extensive, neat manuscript English translation and commentary in an early hand in the margins, and a few additional leaves of the same bound in. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE ONLY ARCHITECTURAL TREATISE TO SURVIVE FROM CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY, considered the supreme authority by Italian Renaissance architects and the single most influential work for the later development of European architecture. The previous three editions contain diagrams only, making this the first to include non-schematic illustrations. The woodcuts depict ornament, plans, elevations, proportions of the human body, heating systems, machinery, a ship with an odometer, and siege machines, among other subjects. The title border with dolphins is itself 'one of the most influential pieces of ornamentation of the sixteenth century' (Mortimer). The 1511 edition is also the first to be edited by Fra Giocondo, a working architect, as well as an editor for the Aldine Press and an authority on classical inscriptions. Adams V-902; Fowler 393; Berlin Kat . 1798; Sander 7694; Millard Italian , 156; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 543; Cicognara 696; RIBA 3491; cf. PMM 26.
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