LIST OF THE SEVERAL EDITIONS ANDVERSIONS OF VITRUVIUS.

. . .—“Editio princeps.”—Without year, place, or printer’sname. Printed at Rome, by George Herolt, underthe superintendence of Sulpitius, in or about 1486.It begins without title as follows:—“ 10 . sulpitiuslectori 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 doctiYictruvii : quorum copia rara fuit.

Hsec lege : nam disces: nova: magna: recondita: pulchra:

Et quae sint in re ssepe futura tua.

Emendata vides : sed peccat litera siquaCorrige : nemo satis lynceus esse potest.

To the Vitruvius is subjoined,—“ Sexti Julii Frontiniviri consularis : de aquis que in urbem influunt:libellus mirabilis.”—The pages are of thirty-fourlines, and the Vitruvius contains ninety-four fols.including the letter of Sulpitius, &c. The Frontinuscontains only sixteen fols. Gaignat Catalogue 54francs. La Valiere ditto 130 francs. Polenus saysthere are but few errors in this edition. Harwoodsays it is a very scarce book.

1496.—This Edition begins thus.—“ Hoc in volumine haecopera continentur. L. Vitruvii Pollionis de Archi-tectura Libri decern. Sexti Julii Frontini de Aquse-ductibus Liber unus. Angeli Politiani Opusculum:quod Panepistemon inscribitur. Angeli Politianiin priora Analytica prselectio, cui titulus est Lamia.”—At the end of the Vitruvius:—“ Florentiae impres-sum anno a natali Christiano m.cccc.lxxxxvi.” —fol.—According to Fabricius, the orthography of this