(VIGNOLA), BAROZZI, GIACOMO da
Regola delli cinque ordini di architettura ...
Folio, contemporary 'carta rustica' boards covered with thin vellum, a GENUINE COPY (boards some worn and spotted, top and bottom of spine with loss of vellum). Engraved title after Federico Zuccaro, containing portrait of Vignola facing right within an architetural frame, engraved 'Motu proprio' by pope Pius IV, engraved dedication to Cardinal Farnese, then 29 engraved and etched architectural plates numbered IIII-XXXII. (Few spots and fingermarking at lower corner, but mostly a clean unsophisticated copy). First edition of Vignola's most important work, and instant classic among manuals which was "immediately accepted as the most reliable short guide to the proportion and formal vocabulary of the Orders" (R.J. Turtle, 'Paper Palaces', p. 200). The earliest date established for publication is 12 June 1562, the presentation copy at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence being the only one known in the earliest state, with both plates I-II unnumbered (in this copy only the 1st is unnumbered). In the Foljambe copy, plate IIII has the names of the parts of the column ('Base', 'Colonna' etc.) added, and the ensuing plates also have the additions listed in RIBA (p. 2216) which indicate second rather than first state. It excludes the plate showing a comparison of the five orders, not found in either state of the first edition (but afterwards introduced as plate III). This copy may be a 3rd state, as known other copies in following states may contain additional five unnumbered plates, like in the Fowler copy, cat. n. 351; cf. BAL/RIBA 3447.
S.n.t., [Rome: Camera Apostolica for Vignola]. 1562 (?)
€ 12.000,00
