An abridgment of the architecture of Vitruvius. . Containing a system of the whole works of that author. Illustrated with divers copper plates, curiously engraved; with a table of explanation, to which is added in this edition the etymology and derivation of the terms used in architecture. First done in French by Monsr Perrault, of the Academy of Paris, and now Englished, with additions.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c.80-70 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3094819
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12],158,[40]p., [1] leaf of plates . ill.. . 8vo. Imperfect: wanting final two leaves.. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "given me by the Revd Sydenham Hervey August 1905 - for the Ickworth library. Bristol" [presumably Frederick William John. 3rd Marquess of Bristol (1834-1907)]. Manuscript inscriptions on title page: "Price 2.6", and "John & Isabella" [i.e. John Hervey, later 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751) and his first wife Isabella (1670-1693)]. Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; double blind fillet border, with blind roll pattern along spine edge; gilt roll on board edges. Rebacked in blind and gold-toold calf. Red sprinkled edges.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c.80-70 BC) Johannes Kip (Amsterdam c.1653 – Westminster 1722) Claude Perrault (1613-1688)