Reigles generales d'architecture : sur les cincq manieres d'edifices, ascauoir, thuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthe, & composite : auec les exemples des antiquites, lesquelz la plupart concordent a la doctrine de Vitruue / reueu & corrige, auec additions du mesme aucteur oultre les precedentes impressions.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554.

Contributor:

Coecke van Aelst, Pieter, 1502-1550, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Tutte l'opere d'architettura. Libro 4. French

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--Orders.

Penn Provenance:

Norris, Isaac, 1701-1766 (autograph) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Norris, Charles, Dr. (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

71 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 35 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

i-re e.r- n.s, r.r- (3) 1550 (A)

Place of Publication:

Anuers : Translate & imprime par Pierre va[n] Aelst, Anno 1550.

Notes:

Third edition of Book IV in French. The title-page border and woodcuts are from the same plates as the German and French editions of 1542 and 1545.

Date of printing from title leaf; imprint from colophon.

Signatures: A-S⁴.

Title within woodcut border; woodcut illustrations and initials.

Typographical ornaments.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full calf with blind-stamped panel and ornaments on covers; six raised bands on spine; all edges speckled red.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Serlio, Sebastiano. Des antiquites. Imprime en Anvers : Pour Pierre Coeck d'Alost ... par Gil. van Diest, En lan de nostre Seigneur Mil, cinq centz, & cinquante, le vje iour de Iuillet [6 July 1550].

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 1954 by Dr. Charles Norris.

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: leaves S1 and S4 wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Isaac Norris on front pastedown and his autograph ("Isaac Norris junior") at head of title leaf of first work in volume.

Culture Class Collection copy: leaves Q2 and R4 torn vertically across upper portion from head; head outer corner of leaf R4 torn off; inkblots on leaf F1r.

OCLC:

3503241