LIST OF THE SEVERAL EDITIONS AND 
VERSIONS OF VITRUVIUS. 
— Editio princeps."—Without year, place, or printer's 
name. Printed at Rome, by George Herolt, under 
the superintendence of Sulpitius, in or about 1486. 
It begins without title as follows:—" 10. SULPITIUS 
LECTORI SALUTEM. Cum divinum opus Victruvii: 
non modo studiosis : sed reliquis hominibus, &c. 
At the end of the last book of Vitruvius are the fol¬ 
lowing verses: 
Lector habes tandem veneranda volumina docti 
Victruvii : quorum copia rara fuit. 
Hæc lege : nam disces: nova: magna: recondita: pulchra : 
Et qua sint in re sæpe futura tua. 
Emendata vides : sed peccat litera siqua 
Corrige : nemo satis lynceus esse potest. 
To the Vitruvius is subjoined,—" Sexti Julii Frontini 
viri consularis : de aquis que in urbem influunt: 
libellus mirabilis."—The pages are of thirty-four 
lines, and the Vitruvius contains ninety-four fols. 
including the letter of Sulpitius, &c. The Frontinus 
contains only sixteen fols. Gaignat Catalogue 54 
francs. La Valiere ditto 130 francs. Polenus says 
there are but few errors in this edition. Harwood 
says it is a very scarce book. 
-This Edition begins thus.—“ Hoc in volumine hæc 
1496. 
opera continentur. L. Vitruvii Pollionis de Archi¬ 
tectura Libri decem. Sexti Julii Frontini de Aquæe 
ductibus Liber unus. Angeli Politiani Opusculum: 
quod Panepistemon inscribitur. Angeli Politiani 
in priora Analytica prælectio, cui titulus est Lamia. 
At the end of the Vitruvius:—" Florentiæ impres- 
sum anno a natali Christiano M.CCCC.LXXXXVI."—fol. 
-According to Fabricius, the orthography of this