[Iacobvs Androvetivs dv Cerceav lectoribvs. S.
Subtitle: nihil alivd semper cogitanti et molienti mihi, qvam vt promissa ex [s]olverem qvod testantvr satis svperiores nostri labores, qvibvs vobis lectores candidi, iam antea frvi licvit, visvm est librvm hvnc recens a me conscriptvm de eo pictvrae genere qvod (Grottesche) vocant Itali in vestram gratiam emittere : cvivs inventionis partem sibi antiqvitas ipsa assvmere, partem meo ivre qvodammodo vendicare possvm, valete, et nostra scripta vestris ponderibvs benevole examinate]
Contributors: Mitchell, Herbert; Herbert Mitchell Bequest (Avery Library)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1550
Place of publication: Avreliae [i.e. Orléans]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Grotesque in architecture; Early works to 1800; Decoration and ornament
Other titles: Jacobus Androvetius du Cerceau lectoribus. S. :; Petits grotesques.
Work titles: Grotesques
Notes: Avery Classics copy: Of the 22 plates in this collection, 20 are in the facsimile issued in 1884? and now digitized (OCLC ID 631391946); one other [no. 16] may also be there but the qualitly of the reproductions on both sides prevents an unquestionable match. Only plate 14 is not found in the facsimile which has as its title page the title page of the 1550 ed.

Avery Classics copy: Binding: Past paper wrapper with gold paper cut-out affixed at center.

Avery Classics copy: Gift of Herbert Mitchell.

Geymüller, H.A. Les Du Cerceau, leur vie et leur oeuvre d'après de nouvelles recherches, 1887, p. 316

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 285

Guilmard, D. Les maîtres ornemanistes, 1880, p. 10

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell