Sebastian Serlio
Sebastian Serlio on Domestic Architecture: Different Dwellings from the Meanest Hovel to the Most Ornate Palace -- The Sixteenth-Century Manuscript of Book VI in the Avery Library of Columbia University.
The Architectural History Foundation, New York/The MIT Press, 1978. The Architectural History Foundation/MIT Press Series, Number 1. Foreword by Adolf K. Placzek, introduction by James S. Ackerman, text by Myra Nan Rosenfeld. 0262191741 81/ [159] pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 11" x 14.5", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and author's facsimile signature blind stamped on front cover. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket, with price of $69.95 on front flap, displays shelfwear, with small, closed tears at edges and light soiling to panels, and with two small faint spots on front panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
Introductory text with facsimile of the original manuscript.
Essays include:
 I. Biographical background: Serlio's publications and buildings
II. The history and evolution of "On Domestic Architecture": Serlio's working method
III. "On Domestic Architecture" and the development of the printed book in the Renaissance: Serlio, Dürer and Pieter Coeke
IV. Social structure in Book VI: The historic and economic background
V. Building types
VI. The theoretical significance of "On Domestic Architecture": a comparison of the Avery and Munich manuscripts
VII. Serlio's legacy
Work on the origin and historical importance of the sixth treatise of "I sette libri dell'architettura" by Italian Mannerist architect Sebastiano Serlio (1475 - 1554).