BARBARO, DANIELLO (1513-70). La Pratica della Perspettiva . Venice: Camillo & Rutilio Borgominieri, 1569 (colophon dated 1568). 2° (308 x 210 mm). Italic type, over 200 woodcuts, of which 22 full-page, the majority geometrical diagrams but including 17 pictorial cuts, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf, woodcut cartouche enclosing first two words of title, woodcut headpiece ornaments in three-dimensional geometric forms, a few small ornaments with grotesque figures, historiated woodcut initials in two sizes. The initial letters painted by a 19th-century hand in gold or red, one woodcut and a few initials outlined in red. (Light dampstaining to first 2 leaves, last 20 leaves more severely dampstained, minor inkstains to title, occasional light marginal foxing or soiling; first quire and bifolia P2.5 and P3.4 slightly shorter.) 17th-or 18th-century limp vellum, evidence of two ties, covers lettered and painted in red, gold and black presumably by the same owner who embellished the initials (soiled and worn). Provenance : 2 marginal notes in 2 different 18th-century Italian hands; "Ivins J(?)r., Paris 9 Apr. 37", note on front pastedown, a few other price annotations on pastedowns, one dated 1783. FIRST EDITION, mixed issue, with the title date changed to 1569, and the colophon with the unchanged first issue date of 1568. Barbaro's treatise on perspective, intended for practicing painters, sculptors and architects, was in part compiled from the work of previous theorists on perspective. The three large landscape cuts showing theater decors are copied from illustrations in the first quarto edition of Serlio's De architettura (1566); other cuts, and a description of Dürer's "instrument for drawing in perspective" (Aa2r) derive from the latter's works on perspective and human proportion, and from Barbaro's own 1567 edition of Vitruvius. Among the woodcuts original to this edition are a full-page cut of a new kind of measuring instrument invented by Giacomo Fusto Castriotto (Aa4r), and the striking 3-dimensional headpiece ornaments. Adams B-170 (title dated 1568, colophon dated 1569); Berlin Katalog 4694; Cicognara 809; Fowler 36; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 39.
BARBARO, DANIELLO (1513-70). La Pratica della Perspettiva . Venice: Camillo & Rutilio Borgominieri, 1569 (colophon dated 1568). 2° (308 x 210 mm). Italic type, over 200 woodcuts, of which 22 full-page, the majority geometrical diagrams but including 17 pictorial cuts, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of last leaf, woodcut cartouche enclosing first two words of title, woodcut headpiece ornaments in three-dimensional geometric forms, a few small ornaments with grotesque figures, historiated woodcut initials in two sizes. The initial letters painted by a 19th-century hand in gold or red, one woodcut and a few initials outlined in red. (Light dampstaining to first 2 leaves, last 20 leaves more severely dampstained, minor inkstains to title, occasional light marginal foxing or soiling; first quire and bifolia P2.5 and P3.4 slightly shorter.) 17th-or 18th-century limp vellum, evidence of two ties, covers lettered and painted in red, gold and black presumably by the same owner who embellished the initials (soiled and worn). Provenance : 2 marginal notes in 2 different 18th-century Italian hands; "Ivins J(?)r., Paris 9 Apr. 37", note on front pastedown, a few other price annotations on pastedowns, one dated 1783. FIRST EDITION, mixed issue, with the title date changed to 1569, and the colophon with the unchanged first issue date of 1568. Barbaro's treatise on perspective, intended for practicing painters, sculptors and architects, was in part compiled from the work of previous theorists on perspective. The three large landscape cuts showing theater decors are copied from illustrations in the first quarto edition of Serlio's De architettura (1566); other cuts, and a description of Dürer's "instrument for drawing in perspective" (Aa2r) derive from the latter's works on perspective and human proportion, and from Barbaro's own 1567 edition of Vitruvius. Among the woodcuts original to this edition are a full-page cut of a new kind of measuring instrument invented by Giacomo Fusto Castriotto (Aa4r), and the striking 3-dimensional headpiece ornaments. Adams B-170 (title dated 1568, colophon dated 1569); Berlin Katalog 4694; Cicognara 809; Fowler 36; Harvard/Mortimer Italian 39.
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