GENERAL RULES

ON ARCHITECTURE BY SEBASTIANO SERLIO OF BOLOGNA

CONCERNING THE FIVE METHODS OF BUILDING, THAT IS,

Society for the Encouragement of National Industry, Library Original: "Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale Bibliothèque" (French). This is a 19th-century library stamp.
Lasteyrie Economic Library Original: "Lasteyrie Bibliotheque Economique" (French). Likely referring to the collection of Charles Philibert de Lasteyrie, a French lithographer and philanthropist.

TUSCAN, DORIC, IONIC,

CORINTHIAN, AND COMPOSITE,

WITH THE EXAMPLES OF ANTIQUITY,

WHICH FOR THE MOST

PART

AGREE

WITH THE TEACHINGS

OF VITRUVIUS. ⁕

Vitruvius was a Roman author and architect of the 1st century BCE. His work "De Architectura" was the sole surviving architectural manual from antiquity and served as the "bible" for Renaissance architects.

1540. ⁕

In Venice, by Francesco Marcolini of Forlì.

with new additions.

WITH PRIVILEGES.

A "privilege" was a legal protection granted by a governing body—in this case, the Venetian Senate—giving the publisher exclusive rights to print the work for a set number of years, similar to a modern copyright.