M. Vitruvii Pollionis De achitectura libri decem, ad Caes. Augustum
Vitruvius's ten books on architecture, edited by Guillaume Philandrier and Georg Agricola and printed in 1586 at Lyon by Jean de Tournes for scholars and architects interested in classical building. The pictures are printed pages with decorated initial letters in woven scrollwork and a woodcut of a classical capital with a carved mask, acanthus scrolls and volutes, offering a designer models of ornamental capitals, border interlace and letterform decoration.
