Accession number
PML 199043.2
Creator
Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554.
Published
In Venetia : Per Francesco Marcolini ..., 1540
Credit line
T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Description
LXXVI leaves : illustrations, plans (woodcuts) ; 41 cm (folio)
Notes
Forms v. 4 of the author's Tutte l'opere d'architettura, published as a 7-vol. work.
Imprint date precedes place of publication on title page.
Signatures: A-T⁴.
Leaves printed on both sides.
Imprint date precedes place of publication on title page.
Signatures: A-T⁴.
Leaves printed on both sides.
Binding
Parisian olive goatskin (410 x 274 mm), ca. 1555, by the Cupid's Bow Binder, richly gilt, 3 gilt fillets around sides, frame of 3 interlaced triple fillets, in center panel interlaced rectangle and lozenge surrounded by large variety of arabesque, azured,
Variant title
Running title: Libro quarto
Provenance
Jean Blondelet (died 2001), initials in blue ink on lower pastedown; Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris (Sixteen Exceptional Books from the 13th to the 19th Century, 2007); T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), his sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana, Sotheby's, New York,
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