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VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (ca 90-20 B.C.). De architectura. Edited by Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515). Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 22 May 1511.
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VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus (ca 90-20 B.C.). De architectura. Edited by Fra Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515). Venice: Giovanni Tacuino, 22 May 1511.
First illustrated edition. The three previous editions contained a few schematic woodcut diagrams, but this Tacuino edition is the first to be extensively illustrated with woodcuts of architectural details and plans, machinery in use, etc.
Folio (289 x 203 mm). Roman type, a few words in Greek, shoulder notes, index at end in triple column. Four-piece decorative woodcut title border with scrolling foliage and dolphin motifs, 136 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, most within double rule borders, printer's device on P9v (Kristeller 326), one 9-line and ten 7-line woodcut initials. (Lacks blank P10, title-page remargined along gutter and fore margin possibly supplied from another copy, G8 and K1 torn and repaired, B1-8 bound out of sequence, some spotting and light marginal dampstaining.) Modern pigskin. Fowler 393.
Tacuino's woodcut title border with dolphins, "one of the most influential pieces of ornamentation of the sixteenth century" (Mortimer), was apparently printed here for the first time. This edition, dedicated to Pope Julius II, was edited by the Veronese architect, epigraphist and editor Fra Giovanni Giocondo, who during the last year of his life collaborated with Raphael and Sangallo on St. Peter's after Bramante's death in 1514. Adams V-902; Berlin Kat. 1798; Cicognara 696; Essling 1702; Mortimer Italian 543; Millard Italian 156; Norman 2157; Sander 7694.
First illustrated edition. The three previous editions contained a few schematic woodcut diagrams, but this Tacuino edition is the first to be extensively illustrated with woodcuts of architectural details and plans, machinery in use, etc.
Folio (289 x 203 mm). Roman type, a few words in Greek, shoulder notes, index at end in triple column. Four-piece decorative woodcut title border with scrolling foliage and dolphin motifs, 136 woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, most within double rule borders, printer's device on P9v (Kristeller 326), one 9-line and ten 7-line woodcut initials. (Lacks blank P10, title-page remargined along gutter and fore margin possibly supplied from another copy, G8 and K1 torn and repaired, B1-8 bound out of sequence, some spotting and light marginal dampstaining.) Modern pigskin. Fowler 393.
Tacuino's woodcut title border with dolphins, "one of the most influential pieces of ornamentation of the sixteenth century" (Mortimer), was apparently printed here for the first time. This edition, dedicated to Pope Julius II, was edited by the Veronese architect, epigraphist and editor Fra Giovanni Giocondo, who during the last year of his life collaborated with Raphael and Sangallo on St. Peter's after Bramante's death in 1514. Adams V-902; Berlin Kat. 1798; Cicognara 696; Essling 1702; Mortimer Italian 543; Millard Italian 156; Norman 2157; Sander 7694.