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L'ORME, Philibert de (ca 1515-1570). Le premier tome de l'architecture. Paris: Frederic Morel, 1567.
2o (381 x 240 mm). Architectural woodcut title-border with diagrams, 205 woodcut illustrations, including 74 full-page and 7 double-page blocks. (Small burn hole on c5, some very minor pale dampstaining on some upper margins at beginning.) Contemporary calf gilt (restored). Provenance: Andre Boyer (contemporary ownership inscription on title); acquired from William H. Schab, 1968.
FIRST EDITION, first issue, dated 1567 on title, this copy without the two additional unsigned leaves "Quelques advertissements aux lecteurs" (present in some copies only), leaves x1, x3, X1, Bbb1 and Bbb2 are double leaves.
"The woodcuts are diagrams, plans, and full illustrations. Among the buildings shown in detail are the château of Anet, built by de L'Orme for Diane de Poitiers, in his capacity as royal architect to Henri II, and de L'Orme's own house in Paris. It is characteristic of de L'Orme's approach to his subject that he should include among the illustrations three allegorical woodcuts concerned with the figure of the architect and the philosophy of a profession for which de L'Orme himself was the first French spokesman" (Mortimer). A FRESH TALL COPY. Mortimer French 355.
2o (381 x 240 mm). Architectural woodcut title-border with diagrams, 205 woodcut illustrations, including 74 full-page and 7 double-page blocks. (Small burn hole on c5, some very minor pale dampstaining on some upper margins at beginning.) Contemporary calf gilt (restored). Provenance: Andre Boyer (contemporary ownership inscription on title); acquired from William H. Schab, 1968.
FIRST EDITION, first issue, dated 1567 on title, this copy without the two additional unsigned leaves "Quelques advertissements aux lecteurs" (present in some copies only), leaves x1, x3, X1, Bbb1 and Bbb2 are double leaves.
"The woodcuts are diagrams, plans, and full illustrations. Among the buildings shown in detail are the château of Anet, built by de L'Orme for Diane de Poitiers, in his capacity as royal architect to Henri II, and de L'Orme's own house in Paris. It is characteristic of de L'Orme's approach to his subject that he should include among the illustrations three allegorical woodcuts concerned with the figure of the architect and the philosophy of a profession for which de L'Orme himself was the first French spokesman" (Mortimer). A FRESH TALL COPY. Mortimer French 355.