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041 1 # $a eng $h dut $h ita
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Serlio, Sebastiano
240 1 1 $a [Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva. $l English. $f 1611.]
245 1 4 $a The first (-fift) Booke of Architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of Geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English.
246 3 8 $a Seb. Serly's Architecture
260 # # $a London $b Printed for Robert Peake, and are to be sold at his shop neere Holborne conduit, next to the Sunne Taverne. $c Anno Dom. 1611.
300 # # $a iii, 13; [i], 26, [1]; [i], 73; 71, [1]; 16 ff.: $b woodcut illus.; $c 355 mm. (Folio.)
500 # # $a The cuts of Book 2 folio 7 verso and Book 4 folio 36 verso have been printed upside down. The cuts of Book 3 folio 2 verso and folio 3 recto have been transposed; as also have those of Book 3 folios 52 and 56 rectos.
505 0 # $a [Dedic.], 'To the Lovers of Architecture' - 'The first Booke ... Geometrie' - 'The second Booke ... Perspective' - 'The third Booke ... Antiquities' - 'The fourth Booke. Rules for Masontry ... after the five maners or orders' - 'The fift Booke ... formes of Temples'.
508 # # $a The name of the translator is not given.

The woodcuts are the same as those used in Pieter Coecke van Aelst's Dutch editions of 1539-1553. They had been copied, with slight alterations, from those used in Serlio's original editions of 1537-1547.

The name of the printer, Simon Stafford, is given in the colophon of Book 5.

The book is dedicated by the publisher, Peake, to Henry, Prince of Wales.
510 4 # $a ESTC $c S117091
510 4 # $a Royal Institute of British Architects, British Architectural Library ... Early printed books, 4 (2001), no. 2976.
510 4 # $a National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard Architectural, II (1998) no. 74.
510 4 # $a E. Harris and N. Savage, British Architectural Books (1990), p. 414-16.
510 4 # $a Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961), no. 331, p.265-6.
510 2 # $a On the impact of Serlio's work see note on the 1600 Italian edition.
520 2 # $a This translation of Serlio - the first English-language edition of five books - is from the Dutch version published at Amsterdam in 1606. No title page is given for the work as a whole, but each book has its own title page (except Book 3) and colophon (except Book 4).

The work is illustrated with more than 300 woodcuts (some full-page blocks).
561 # # $a Acquired by 1802. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
562 # # $a Imperfect, wanting Book I title page and leaves 5-13; Book 3 leaves 29 , 30; Book 4 leaves 34, 35, 65-[72]. In addition the title page and first leaf of Book 2 have been transposed to the beginning of the publication and inserted before the Dedication. This copy has also the following annotations: on folio 40 of Book 3 a note in graphite in Italian; on folio 12 of Book 4 a signature in ink, 'Joseph Daw Architect'; on the lower endpaper a graphite drawing incorporating architectural and armorial motifs.
563 # # $a 18th-century half calf, marbled-paper boards; spine lettered, 'Seb. Serly's Architecture'.
653 0 # $a Architecture - Architectural orders - Architecture, Italian - Italy - History - 16th century - Renaissance
655 # 4 $a Manuals - Pattern books - Italy - 16th century
655 # 4 $a Manuals - Pattern books - Translations from Italian - Translations into English - Great Britain - 17th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Woodcuts - Great Britain - 17th century
700 1 # $a Stafford, Simon $e printer
700 0 # $a Henry $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Coecke van Aelst, Pieter
700 1 # $a Peake, Robert $e publisher
852 8 # $d 1802: A-5-13; 1821: K-4-02.