The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: In Ten Books (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture) - Softcover

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108070523 ISBN 13: 9781108070522

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Active in the first century BCE, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote his influential architectural treatise in ten books. It remained the standard manual for architects into the medieval period. The topics which Vitruvius considered essential are diverse, including aspects of design as well as geometry and engineering. In the nineteenth century, the English architect and author Joseph Gwilt (1784–1863) won greater acclaim for the books he published than for the buildings he designed. His most celebrated achievement, The Encyclopaedia of Architecture (1842), is also reissued in this series. Gwilt's one-volume translation of Vitruvius's Latin text was first published in 1826. Supplanting previous versions, this work was long regarded as the standard edition in English. It contains a brief life of Vitruvius as well as an annotated list of previous editions since the fifteenth century. A number of detailed illustrative plates accompany the text.

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Book Description

Active in the first century BCE, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote his influential architectural treatise in ten books, covering a broad range of practical and theoretical topics. Complete with illustrative plates, this one-volume translation by Joseph Gwilt (1784–1863), first published in 1826, was long considered the standard English edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108070523
• ISBN 13: 9781108070522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 478