SERLIO, Sebastiano. Tutte l’Opere d'Architettura … hora di nuovo aggiunto (oltre il libro delle porte) gran numero di case private nella Città & in villa. Venezia, Francesco de’ Franceschi Senese, 1584.
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4to, mm. 250x185; Full vellum binding of the XVIII century, title written on the spine; leaves [24], 219, 1 bl., 27, 1 bianca; pp. 6 nn., 243, 1 with colophon and printer’s device; missing the bl. leaf *4 after p. 6 nn. in the second part. Each vol. with its own Title page.
A lot of plates and woodcut illustrations within the text, some at full page. Stamp of ancient possessor.
FIRST COLLECTIVE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF SERLIO. This edition, richly illustrated, contains seven books on architecture with the addition of the final index of Giovanni Domenico Scamozzi.
It is the first treaty of architecture to practical use.
Serlio intended to provide a kind of handbook for architects to face any kind of problem: codified for the first five orders, provided clear rules of perspective, took charge of set design and offered a vast repertoire of motifs, spreading throughout Europe the language of Bramante and Peruzzi. The seven books of Serlio had a story rather confused and editorial were published separately: the extraordinary tax, that here before the seventh, was the last book published by the author in person.
After this first edition of the common, the seven surviving books were reprinted in 1600 and again in 1619. But they were mostly a very wide spread separate. Book illustrations and IV of the Book are those extraordinary tax edition of Venice in 1566, while those of Book VII are reductions in folio edition of Venice 1575.
Choix, VI, 7789; Riccardi 1, 441; Fowler, p. 333.
Slight sign of wear, nice specimen.
A lot of plates and woodcut illustrations within the text, some at full page. Stamp of ancient possessor.
FIRST COLLECTIVE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF SERLIO. This edition, richly illustrated, contains seven books on architecture with the addition of the final index of Giovanni Domenico Scamozzi.
It is the first treaty of architecture to practical use.
Serlio intended to provide a kind of handbook for architects to face any kind of problem: codified for the first five orders, provided clear rules of perspective, took charge of set design and offered a vast repertoire of motifs, spreading throughout Europe the language of Bramante and Peruzzi. The seven books of Serlio had a story rather confused and editorial were published separately: the extraordinary tax, that here before the seventh, was the last book published by the author in person.
After this first edition of the common, the seven surviving books were reprinted in 1600 and again in 1619. But they were mostly a very wide spread separate. Book illustrations and IV of the Book are those extraordinary tax edition of Venice in 1566, while those of Book VII are reductions in folio edition of Venice 1575.
Choix, VI, 7789; Riccardi 1, 441; Fowler, p. 333.
Slight sign of wear, nice specimen.
