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Excerpt from The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: In Ten Books About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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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.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1330113608
- ISBN 13 9781330113608
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages477
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