M. Vitrvvii Pollionis De architectvra libri decem
Vitruvius's De architectura, the Roman treatise on building, here in a 1649 edition printed in Latin and held by Heidelberg University Library, aimed at architects and scholars of classical antiquity. The woodcut pictures show column bases, shafts and capitals drawn in plain line hatching with marginal commentary text beside them, offering a designer clear, rule-based classical forms and stone-like shading to borrow for ornament or line work.
