Author: VIGNOLA, Giacomo Barozzi da.
Title: Le due regole della prospettiva pratica. Con i commentarij del Egnatio Danti.Rome, Francesco Zannetti, 1583. Folio. With a richly engraved architectural title-page by Cherubinus Albertus, 120 woodcut mathematical illustrations and figures in the text explaining perspective, including woodcuts of anamorphoses and 1 full-page woodcut, designed and cut by Danti, 29 engraved plates showing perspective designs, including 8 full-page, by Vignola. Further with a large woodcut printer's device on verso of the last leaf, and some woodcut decorated initials and head pieces. Later gold-tooled half calf and green decorated paper over boards, red and blue sprinkled edges.
Description: [1], [1 blank], [10], 145, [5] pp.Rare first edition of this classic on perspective by the famous Italian architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-1573), published ten years after the author's death by Ignazio Danti, professor in mathematics in Bologna. The coat of arms on the title is that of the dedicatee, Giacomo Buoncompagni, natural son of Pope Gregory XIII. Danti tells in his dedication, dated 1583, that Vignola was working on the copper plates at the time of his death. Danti further illustrated the text with woodcuts. This combination of woodcut and copper-engraved illustrations was maintained in the following Rome editions - of 1611 and 1644 - but abandoned in the Bologna edition of 1682, which contains only woodcuts. One of the full-page copper-plates by Vignola illustrates the use of a drawing instrument to copy a large female figure. Danti contributed some fine woodcut models for the anamorphoses. The book is well produced, the text by Vignola printed in large Roman type and the text by Danti in Italic and smaller Roman type, with small Italic legenda in the margins. The preliminaries contain a short biography of Vignola, written by the editor. Vignola was one of the great masters of theoretical perspective and he was the first to teach both the "costruzione legittima" of Alberti and the distance-point construction of Pelerin, and to show that both had identical results.With a few small annotations and markings in the margins, in pencil and in brown ink. The binding shows signs of wear, mainly around the edges of the boards, the leather around the spine and corners of the boards has been restored, the endpapers show some stains, some small tears in the margins have been restored (not affecting the text), internally some thumbing stains in the margins and light foxing throughout, a water stain in the upper outer corner throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l Berlin Kat. 4695; Cicognara 810; Fowler 386; Ivins, Art and geometry, p. 77; Mortimer, Harvard French, 538; Riccardi I, 87, and 392-393; Vagnetti EIIb8; cf. Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 69, et passim.
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Title: Le due regole della prospettiva pratica. Con i commentarij del Egnatio Danti.Rome, Francesco Zannetti, 1583. Folio. With a richly engraved architectural title-page by Cherubinus Albertus, 120 woodcut mathematical illustrations and figures in the text explaining perspective, including woodcuts of anamorphoses and 1 full-page woodcut, designed and cut by Danti, 29 engraved plates showing perspective designs, including 8 full-page, by Vignola. Further with a large woodcut printer's device on verso of the last leaf, and some woodcut decorated initials and head pieces. Later gold-tooled half calf and green decorated paper over boards, red and blue sprinkled edges.
Description: [1], [1 blank], [10], 145, [5] pp.Rare first edition of this classic on perspective by the famous Italian architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-1573), published ten years after the author's death by Ignazio Danti, professor in mathematics in Bologna. The coat of arms on the title is that of the dedicatee, Giacomo Buoncompagni, natural son of Pope Gregory XIII. Danti tells in his dedication, dated 1583, that Vignola was working on the copper plates at the time of his death. Danti further illustrated the text with woodcuts. This combination of woodcut and copper-engraved illustrations was maintained in the following Rome editions - of 1611 and 1644 - but abandoned in the Bologna edition of 1682, which contains only woodcuts. One of the full-page copper-plates by Vignola illustrates the use of a drawing instrument to copy a large female figure. Danti contributed some fine woodcut models for the anamorphoses. The book is well produced, the text by Vignola printed in large Roman type and the text by Danti in Italic and smaller Roman type, with small Italic legenda in the margins. The preliminaries contain a short biography of Vignola, written by the editor. Vignola was one of the great masters of theoretical perspective and he was the first to teach both the "costruzione legittima" of Alberti and the distance-point construction of Pelerin, and to show that both had identical results.With a few small annotations and markings in the margins, in pencil and in brown ink. The binding shows signs of wear, mainly around the edges of the boards, the leather around the spine and corners of the boards has been restored, the endpapers show some stains, some small tears in the margins have been restored (not affecting the text), internally some thumbing stains in the margins and light foxing throughout, a water stain in the upper outer corner throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l Berlin Kat. 4695; Cicognara 810; Fowler 386; Ivins, Art and geometry, p. 77; Mortimer, Harvard French, 538; Riccardi I, 87, and 392-393; Vagnetti EIIb8; cf. Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 69, et passim.
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- Book number: 6149
- Book number: 6149