Vitruvius
Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture.
Cambridge University Press, 1999. First edition. 0521553644 xvi/333 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.5", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Preliminary pages to table of contents, including title page, display mild diagonal crease. Book is otherwise like new. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear, with crease to front flap. 
"For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' "Ten Books on Architecture" is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the "De Architectura libri decem" ("Ten Books on Architecture") is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. Demonstrating the range of Vitruvius' style, this new edition includes examples from archaeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. Rowland's new translation and Howe's critical commentary and illustrations provide a new image of Vitruvius, who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance".