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VITRUVIUS Pollio, Marcus (70-23 BC). Architecture ou Art de bien bastir... mis de Latin en François, par Ian Martin. Paris: Marnef and Cavellat, 1572.
2° (348 x 226 mm). Woodcut title border and printer's device, 162 woodcuts illustrations including one plate folding out, floriated woodcut initials, two woodcut head-pieces repeated, another device on verso of last leaf. (Slight spotting, occasional browning.) Contemporary limp vellum (rubbed, soiled and stained, two ties lacking, front cover and title detaching from textblock). Provenance: Biaggio? (signature on front pastedown).
Second French edition, profusely illustrated. Beside schematic architectural illustrations, the woodcuts 'con molto bel garbo' (Cicognara 710, for the first ed.) include complex Renaissance ornaments, graceful scenes and theatrical stage settings in Italian perspective. Most of them are the work of Jean Goujon (d.c.1567), while the larger initials are attributable to Jean Cousin (c.1490-c.1560), two artists who together decorated the Château d'Anet. Vitruvius' treatise is followed by Goujon's discourse on his own illustrations. Berlin Kat. 1808; British Arch. Lib. 3510; Brunet V, 1329: 'on en recherche toujours l'édition... de Paris, 1572, à cause des gravures sur bois'; Cicognara 719; Fowler 411; Mortimer, French 551; not in Adams.
2° (348 x 226 mm). Woodcut title border and printer's device, 162 woodcuts illustrations including one plate folding out, floriated woodcut initials, two woodcut head-pieces repeated, another device on verso of last leaf. (Slight spotting, occasional browning.) Contemporary limp vellum (rubbed, soiled and stained, two ties lacking, front cover and title detaching from textblock). Provenance: Biaggio? (signature on front pastedown).
Second French edition, profusely illustrated. Beside schematic architectural illustrations, the woodcuts 'con molto bel garbo' (Cicognara 710, for the first ed.) include complex Renaissance ornaments, graceful scenes and theatrical stage settings in Italian perspective. Most of them are the work of Jean Goujon (d.c.1567), while the larger initials are attributable to Jean Cousin (c.1490-c.1560), two artists who together decorated the Château d'Anet. Vitruvius' treatise is followed by Goujon's discourse on his own illustrations. Berlin Kat. 1808; British Arch. Lib. 3510; Brunet V, 1329: 'on en recherche toujours l'édition... de Paris, 1572, à cause des gravures sur bois'; Cicognara 719; Fowler 411; Mortimer, French 551; not in Adams.
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