Alberti, L'architettura, Venice, 1565, old calf

Alberti, Leon Battista

L'architettura... tradotta in lingua fiorentina di Cosimo Bartoli... con la aggiunta de' disegni. Venice: Francesco de' Franceschi, 1565

4to (211 x 157mm.), title within woodcut border, woodcut portrait on verso of title-page, woodcut initials and illustrations, folding woodcut plate, a sheet of architectural drawings on tracing paper loosely inserted, later calf, gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments, cut close at head, title-page border shaved at head, joints worn, spine chipped

A reduced version of the 1550 folio edition, which was the first printing of Bartoli's influential Italian translation, and containing a fine woodcut title-page border which is a close copy of the 1550 woodcut border by Vasari.

LITERATURE:

BAL RIBA 54; Edit16 725; Bryce, Bartoli B1; cf. Mortimer, Harvard Italian 12 (1550 edition)