Entrée principale:

Vitruvius Pollio.

Titre et auteur:

An abridgment of the architecture of Vitruvius. Containing a system of the whole works of that author. Illustrated with divers copper plates, curiously engraved; with a table of explanation, to which is added in this edition the etymology and derivation of the terms used in architecture. First done in French by Monsr. Perrault ... and now Englished, with additions.

Publication:

London, Printed for A. Swall and T. Child, 1692.

Description:

6 preliminary leaves, 158, [34] pages including XI plates frontispiece 15 cm

Notes:
The frontispiece, a copy of the one in the Paris 1674 and 1681 editions, is signed "J. Kip Sculp." The plates are close copies of those in the Paris editions.
Descriptive text for each plate on the verso of the preceding plate, except plates X-XI, which are printed with the description on both sides of one folding sheet, given two page numbers in the supplied pagination.

Sujet:

Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture

Classification/genre:

Treatises.
Early works

Vedettes secondaires:

Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque cage y 78398
Cote: NA44.V848 (0000535)
Statut: Disponible