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Florence: Philippi de Giunta, October 1513. Second edition of the first illustrated Vitruvius. 8vo. ff. (v), 187; 2-34, (i.e. 24).; a1 of second part misbound after fourth text leaf at front. Edited by Giovanni Giocondo. Title-page within woodcut border, printer's device on verso of C8, and illustrated with 140 in-text woodcut illustrations, and numerous wood-cut initials. Full brown 19th-century straight grain morocco, ruled in blind, decorated in gilt, sometime rebacked, front board detached, boards scuffed and dry, spine dry and worn; all edges gilt; armorial book-plate of Michaelis Tomkinson on front paste-down; ownership signature, dated 1948, on front free endpaper; title-page soiled; scattered spotting to text; rear hinge repaired; scattered faint contemporary marginalia. BAL RIBA 3492; Edit16 28727; Sander 7695; Brunet V: 1327; Fowler 394; Cicognara 697

Second edition of the first illustrated Vitruvius. Edited by Giovanna Giocondo, the first edition was published two years earlier, in 1511. This edition is the first pocket-sized printing, and is expanded with the inclusion of Frontinus’s treatise on aqueducts, as well as the inclusion of four woodcuts not featured in the first edition. The woodcuts used in this edition are reduced, and less sophisticated, versions of those used in the first edition.