Folio (392x267 mm.). 274 [i.e. 284], [18] pp. Collation: A8 B6 C6 [χ]1 D-G8, H6 I8 K8+1 L8 ²[χ]1 M-Q8 R6 S-T8 V4. The register on leaf V4r records irregularities and pasted extensions as “quinterni alterati”. Leaf M4 missigned L4, corrected by stamping. Leaves K3 and L6 are double and irregularly paged (133, 133, 133, 134, between 132 and 135; 155, 156, 156, 157 between 1544 and 157 misnumbered 167; each counted as two leaves in collation). Two leaves inserted between the original I4 and I5 are signed I4 and I5 and numbered with roman numerals CXXV-CXXVIII between pp. 124 and 125. Architectural title-page, with the title set in the upper part of an arch between personifications of Poetry, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy, and above a figure of Architecture standing below and flanked by allegorical figures. Imprint set below the block. On the verso of leaf A2 is a full-page woodcut of two men among the ruins of buildings and examples of instruments and machinery described by Vitruvius. One of the men may be Daniello Barbaro. The block includes a cartouche at the head and Barbaro's coat of arms. The cartouche is blank in this first appearance, but the block is repeated on leaf V4r with the register set into this space. 131 woodcuts in the ten books, 25x36 mm. to 424 x 500 mm. (with pasted extension). There are 8 double-page blocks. 15 blocks are printed as plates, recto and verso of leaves E7, E8, Hs, I2, M4-M5 (one double-page and two single-page), R5, and R6. Illustrations on leaves C6r, E7r, E8r, F3v, 2I4r, and 2I5r have pasted extensions. A small cut on leaf Q2v has a movable part. The wrong block was printed on leaf B3r, and it was corrected with two different methods. Some copies have a full-page pasted cancel, including head-line and signature mark. Other copies, like the present one, have cancel leaves B3 and B4, with the same block as on the pasted cancel but here inverted, and with B4v completely reset. The first line of B4v begins “LE…” in the original, “Le…” in the cancel; there are numerous variants in capitalization, but the only text correction is the change from “saranno … situati” to “sarà … situato” in line 36. The inner forme is a double-page illustration; the position of the page numbers indicates that it was also reimposed. The B3r block reappears at leaf F1r in the position it has on the cancel page, not the cancel leaf. There are also pasted cancel illustrations for leaves E8v and F7r. There are variant settings for the caption of the single-page block on the recto of the first half of double leaf K3. Some copies have line 1 ending, “lettera” and the signature mark in italics. Other copies, like the present one, have line 1 ending, “con” and the signature mark in roman. At the end of book 10 (l. T3v) is a Barbaro device of two candles with the motto, “Devs adivvat volentes”. Added at the end of the volume are three more illustrations -a full-page Ionic capital on leaf V2r, and on leaves V2v and V3r a repetition of the blocks of plans of the theaters of Curio from book 5, leaves L5v and L8v. The blocks are repeated to demonstrate how the theaters could be turned to form one amphitheater; the two blocks are printed on the facing pages and the same blocks reprinted as volvelle parts are attached to the pages, but are here missing. Astronomical table on leaves P7r-Q2r, printed with grotesque and arabesque head-pieces; other tables in books 3 and 9. Music on leaves K8r and L2v, printed by the single-impression method. Arabesque head ornaments. Large initials with city views, historiated initials in two sizes. The second initial on leaf T3r is a wrong C and was later corrected from C to I as it can be seen in other copies. Large Marcolini's device of Truth as the daughter of Time on leaf V4v, printed with the colophon within a scrollwork border. Text in roman letter, alternating with Barbaro's commentary in italic. Errata on leaf V1r for the text and on leaf V3v for the table in book 9. The extra leaf in signature
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