The first [-fifth] Booke of Architecture - Serlio / Robert Peake - London 1611

The first [-fifth] Booke of Architecture.

-Sebastiano Serlio and published by Robert Peake.

-London: by Simon Stafford and Thomas Snodham for Robert Peake, 1611

-In Original Folio leather binding (with wear). 35 x 24cm.

Missing the title page, folio 64 to book III, and with losses to last page. Otherwise complete.

Collation: ii (of iii), 13; [i], 26, [1]; [i], 73 (missing folio 64); 71, [1]; 16 ff.

The first English edition of Serlio's seminal work and the first major book on Architecture published in English. Lavishly illustrated with text in black letter. Text after the Amsterdam edition of Peter Cocke 1606.

"First edition of first English translation, in five books, each with a separate title page: First Book--Geometry, Second Book--Perspective, Third Book--Antiquities, Fourth Book--Masonry, and Fifth Book--Temples. Each book has separate foliation and register, but were printed together and most often, as here, bound together."