M. Vitrvvii Pollionis De architectvra libri decem ad Caesarem Avgvstvm : omnibus omnium editionibus longè emendatiores, collatis veteribus exemplis : accesservnt Gulielmi Philandri Castilionii, ciuis Romani, annotationes castigatiores, & plus tertia parte locupletiores : adiecta est Epitome in omnes Georgij Agricolae De mensuris & ponderibus libros, eodem avtore : cum Graeco pariter & Latino indice locupletissimo
A 1552 Lyon edition of Vitruvius's ten books on architecture, printed by Jean de Tournes with Guillaume Philandrier's commentary and an Agricola epitome on weights and measures, illustrated by Bernard Salomon for Renaissance architects and scholars. Alongside diagrams of orders, plans and machines are dozens of small criblé-ground initials filled with acanthus, dolphins, grotesque figures and fruit baskets, usable as decorative capitals.
