Les Dix Livres d'Architecture de Vitruve, edited and translated by Claude Perrault Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1684, engraved additional title, 68 plates including 8 double-page, engraved head- and tail-pieces, woodcuts to text, scattered spotting or light browning, small closed tear to foremargin of 2Q1 not affecting text, contemporary ink ownership name of 'Jonat. Richardson' to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rubbed, some edge and corner wear, modern morocco reback with red morocco spine label and seven raised bands, folio (430 x 285mm) The second Perrault edition, and Brunet argues, with Perrault's scholarly commentary and translation is more complete than the first edition of 1673 and therefore preferable. Fowler 418 (notes). Provenance: Believed to be Jonathan Richardson the Younger (1694-1771), collector and son of the famous painter of the same name. (1)
Les Dix Livres d'Architecture de Vitruve, edited and translated by Claude Perrault Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1684, engraved additional title, 68 plates including 8 double-page, engraved head- and tail-pieces, woodcuts to text, scattered spotting or light browning, small closed tear to foremargin of 2Q1 not affecting text, contemporary ink ownership name of 'Jonat. Richardson' to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rubbed, some edge and corner wear, modern morocco reback with red morocco spine label and seven raised bands, folio (430 x 285mm) The second Perrault edition, and Brunet argues, with Perrault's scholarly commentary and translation is more complete than the first edition of 1673 and therefore preferable. Fowler 418 (notes). Provenance: Believed to be Jonathan Richardson the Younger (1694-1771), collector and son of the famous painter of the same name. (1)
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