Maniere de bien bastir pour toutes sortes de personnes. Contenant les moyens d'elever des bastimens de toutes grandeurs, d'y faire tous les ornemens, commoditez & détachemens qui s'y peuvent souhaiter. Ensemble des desseins pour bastir regulierement sur toute sorte de place.

Pt. 1 comprises added engraved title leaf, letterpress pages [1]-11, [12] (the last blank), 75 single-page engraved plates. The engraver was probably Melchior Tavernier, printer of the 1st ed.; see Mauban. Pt. 2 comprises etched title leaf, 9 single-page plates (numbered 1-8, 25), 22 double-page plates (numbered 9-24, 26-31). The etched title leaf is signed Le Pautre (i.e. Jean Le Pautre), and the 31 plates are by Jean Marot, whose signature appear on the 25th; see Mauban.

Added engr. title: Maniere de bastir pour touttes sortes de personne... reueüe et augmatee, en cette seconde edition, de plusieurs figures de tresbeaux bastimans... de ljnuention et conduite dudit S.r P. Le Müet, et autres.

Pt. 1 first published in 1623, pt. 2 in 1647. See Mauban.

Mauban, A. Jean Marot,

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Binding, c. 1: later marbled paper, back & corners in calfskin. Author & title on spine label in gilt: Muet, Architecture civile. Edges red. Copy 2: old calfskin. Spine gilt tooled, including title. Edges sprinkled red & tan. Giovanni Muzio's etched bookplate by Giacomo Manzù.

In Getty c. 1, plates in pt. 1 printed on both sides of leaves, while in c. 2, some are printed on one side only. Double-page plates in c. 1 bound in at left margin and folded, in c. 2 tipped onto stubs at center fold. Plates 18 & 24 (c. 1) reversed in printing. Plates 55 & 56 (c. 2) reversed in binding.