VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius, London: Abel Swall and T. Child, 1692, small 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, engraved frontispiece, 4 plates with accompanying letterpress descriptions printed recto and verso of 2 folding sheets, 7 full-page illustrations (a few margins closely shaved), contemporary speckled sheep (head of spine chipped). [Fowler 421; Wing V663]

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VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius, London: Abel Swall and T. Child, 1692, small 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, engraved frontispiece, 4 plates with accompanying letterpress descriptions printed recto and verso of 2 folding sheets, 7 full-page illustrations (a few margins closely shaved), contemporary speckled sheep (head of spine chipped). [Fowler 421; Wing V663]

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An anonymous translation of the second edition of Perrault's Abrégé of the Ten Books, published in Amsterdam in 1681. Includes the first English glossary of architectural terms.

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