FOURTH BOOK OF

ARCHITEC-

TURE BY SEBASTIANO

SERLIO

OF BOLOGNA.

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 from a French organization founded to promote technical and economic progress.
Lasteyrie Economic Library Original: "Lasteyrie Bibliotheque Economique" (French). Likely referring to the collection of Charles Philibert de Lasteyrie, a prominent French lithographer and philanthropist who was active in the Society for the Encouragement of National Industry.

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 seeking to rediscover ancient building principles.

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 and sell the work for a set number of years, acting as an early form of copyright.