De l'Orme's Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir added as livres X-XI to his Premier tome de l'architecture. See Fowler 98-100 (discussing other eds.) Added title leaf with architectural border and 4 geometrical projections in margins. Woodcut printer's device on t.p. Port. of de l'Orme, leaf 5v. Numerous in-text ill., many full page. Cuts of the bad and the good architect, 3N3 & 3N5. Stanza addressed to Zoilus within woodcut architectural border, last p. Woodcut head-pieces, initials Signature
...s: [a]-n o [p]² q r s-v x² chi(chi1 signed x3) y-z A-C [D]² E-M N O-V X² 2chi(2chi1 signed X2) Y Z 3chi² 4chi² 5chi² 3A 3B²(both leaves signed 3B1) 6chi²(6chi1 signed 3B2) 7chi²(7chi1 signed 3B3) 3C-3O In Getty copy chi2.3 bound before chi1.4, instead of being quired within it, and 2chi2.3 before 2chi1.4. 6chi² bound before 3B² Binding: old (but not original) leather (sheepskin?). Gold fillets along margins of boards and on spine. Brief author & title on spine in gilt Giovanni Muzio's etched bookplate by Giacomo Manzù. Bookplate of Biblioteca Scati-Grimaldi Ownership inscription on front free endpaper, apparently preserved from an earlier binding: François Roussel, master mason of Lyons, bought this book from Sr. Claude, bookseller in rue Marcière, for 25 livres tournois on 20 March 1634
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