Dedication to Pius IV in Latin; all other text in Italian. Engraved title page; architectural border with portrait of Vignola. First issued in 1562; second issue 1563? with the thirty-two plates and without date or place of publication. Imperfect: ownership inscription rubbed from title page. No. 1 of 3 titles bound together. Three states of the first edition exist. None have publication dates or place; The first is the dedication copy in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence; the second state has a five line printed addition on the preface leaf, and additional printed annotations on plates 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 24 and 25; the third state has an additional 5 plates. Cf. Walcher Casotti.
Extent
XXXII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 41 cm. (fol.)
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Citation
Fowler 363 Schlosser, J. Letteratura (3d ed.), p. 410, 420 Walcher Casotti, M. Trattati d'architettura, p. 527-38 Walcher Casotti, M. Vignola, I, p. 99, 172-173