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<dl><dd>First edition with Barbaro's commentary in Latin. Cf. Mortimer</dd>
<dd>The plates are from the Marcolini 1556 edition, and are the same as those in Franciscius' Italian edition, also issued in 1567. Cf. Mortimer</dd>
<dd>Page [20] at front blank</dd>
<dd>Leaves Q4 and R2 are folded</dd>
<dd>Signatures: áœ b́þ A-2Ǵœ 2H́ı</dd>
<dd>Woodcuts: printer's device on title page, repeated on last page (Franceschi's seated figure of Peace (Pax), her left arm resting on a cornucopia, her right hand holding an olive branch, within ornamental cartouche); large white historiated initials; smaller ornamental initials; 2 small foliated head-pieces. Text extensively illustrated throughout with 135 architectural drawings (including two repetitions), plans, and a pictorial map of Venice on the verso of leaf R6; music in Liber Quintus has been printed by the single-impression method</dd>
<dd>Text in roman type, with Barbaro's commentary in italic. Greek type in bk. 10</dd>
<dd>Barbaro's preface dedicated to Cardinal Antonio Perrenoto, bishop of Mechelen (Belgium)</dd>
<dd>Errata: leaves b́v-b́r</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Not in Barton collection catalog</dd>
<dd>Adams</dd>
<dd>Mortimer, R. Italian 16th cent.</dd>
<dd>Fowler, L.H. Fowler Architectural Collection</dd>
<dd>BM STC Italian, 1465-1600</dd>
<dd>Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in full, early calfskin panelled in blind and rebacked. The board edges are rolled in gilt and the spine is panelled and tooled in gilt with a red leather label. The armorial bookplate of Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, is present on the front pastedown. This copy belonged to Ben Jonson, whose motto, "Tanquam Explorator" is present at the head of the title page and whose autograph, "Sum Ben. Jonsoni" has been scraped off, but is still faintly visible opposite the printer's device on the same page. Notes in Jonson's hand are also present on pages 2, 3, and 284. The rest of the text is annotated throughout in different early hands, including what appears to be the autograph of Marquard Gude at the foot of the title page. Also housed with this copy are three slips of paper containing early manuscript notes in both Latin and Greek. Housed in a red cloth box built by Bayntun-Riviere</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Architecture</div>
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<dl><dd>Vitruvius Pollio</dd>
<dd>Barbaro, Daniel, 1514-1570, author of introduction</dd>
<dd>Franceschi, Francesco de, printer</dd>
<dd>Chrieger, Giovanni, active 16th century, publisher</dd>
<dd>Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, former owner</dd>
<dd>Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764, former owner</dd>
<dd>Gude, Marquard, 1635-1689, former owner</dd>
<dd>Bayntun-Riviere (Bindery), binder</dd></dl></div>
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