Les six livres d’architecture de Vitruve, / corrigez et traduits nouvellement en François, avec des notes & des figures.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c.80-70 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1673
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3032514
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20], 237, 234-325, [17] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., music ; fol. Provenance: armorial bookplate on sig. Tttt2v. verso under colophon: John Lord Sommers Baron of Evesham [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]. Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled calf over boards on six raised cords, gilt spine tooling and titling, remains of gilt roll on board edges, gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c.80-70 BC) , author