Architecture generale de Vitruve
By: reduite en abregé par Mr. Perrault de l'Academie des sciences à Paris
Contributors: Perrault, Claude, 1613-1688; Huguetan (Firm); Gallet, George, 17th/18th cent
Edition: Derniere edition enrichie de figures en cuivre.
Publisher: Aux dépens des Huguetan, et se vend chez George Gallet sur le Keyser Graft
Published: 1681
Place of publication: Amsterdam [i.e. Lyon?]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Architecture
Other titles: Architecture generale de Vitruve reduite en abregé
Work titles: De architectura
Notes: The Huguetan were established in Lyon until the mid 1680s, when they left for Amsterdam. "George Gallet" was one of their pseudonyms. See Répertoire d'imprimeurs/libraires (2004 ed.), p. 299.

Etched frontispiece and letterpress t.p. with engraved Huguetan device form a preliminary gathering of 2 leaves (=a1.12?). Full-page etched ill., numbered I-XI. Chip2s bears IX, double-page X, and one p. of letterpress; it is folded at foredges and tipped onto stub at centerfold.

Gallet's list of books for sale, a8-a10.

Letterpress text on versos of plates.

Signatures: pip2s ap12s(-a1.12) A-Kp8s [L]p2s([L]1+chip2s) Mp8s Np4s.

Includes index.

Binding: sprinkled calfskin. Spine tooled in gilt, including abbreviated title. Edges sprinkled red & brown.

On t.p. verso  is engraved armorial bookplate dated 1702 of Patrick Hume (1641-1724), 1st earl of Marchmont, Lord Polwarth, and Lord High Chancellor of Scotland. Above is his signature "Polwarth." Property stamps of Maidstone College of Art Library.