Main entry:

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554.

Title & Author:

An excellent introduction to architecture : being a book of geometrical-practice : which is the first degree of all arts, wherein is contained variety of examples of that admirable science ...

Publication:

London : Printed for Robert Pricke at the Ball in St. Pauls Church-yard ..., [approximately 1679]

Description:

18 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 45 cm

Notes:
Another edition of the first English translation of Book 1 of Serlio's Tutte l'opere d'architettura.
Imprint from cancel slip mounted on title page; date printed on cancel slip reads "167 ". Cancelled imprint dated 1670.
British Library copy has cancel slip in a different, apparently later, state reading "Balls" instead of "Ball."
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785, 1990, 722
ESTC, R40565

Subject:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Geometry Early works to 1800.
Géométrie Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Geometry.
Architecture (object genre)

Form/genre:

Treatises.
Early works.

Added entries:

Pricke, Robert.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 83081
Call No.: NA44.S485 (9994)
Status: Available