BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
Le théâtre de l’art de charpentier by Mathurin Jousse, followed by "Bref traité des cinq ordres de colonnes" was reprinted again in 1664, that time by the Georges Griveau the Younger's widow. He had died before 1663, after his own mother had left him the workshop in 1659. The title and the dedication were rewritten for the circumstance. Unlike the 1659 publication, the dedication is followed at the bottom of the page by a sonnet "L’auteur à son livre" which appeared in the original 1627 edition and was deleted from the following editions (1650, 1659). The 1664 edition includes the 1659 pagination corrections and in addition corrects an error which remained in the numbering : page "197" is correctly numbered "167". On the other hand the missing number of the "XLIVe figure" (p. 73) reestablished in 1659 does not appear. This new reprint confirms the great success of Jousse’s treatise on carpentry during the second half of the 17th century. Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de
la recherche scientifique,
Critical bibliographyF. Le Bœuf, "Mathurin Jousse, maître serrurier à La Flèche et théoricien d'architecture (vers 1575-1645)", In situ, 1, 2001. P. Le Bœuf, "La Bibliothèque de Mathurin Jousse : une tentative de reconstitution", In situ, 1, 2001. E. Pasquier & V. Dauphin, Imprimeurs et libraires de l’Anjou, Angers, Société anonyme des éditions de l’Ouest, 1932, pp. 311-326. É.-C. Pecquet, "Mathurin Jousse, architecte et ingénieur de la ville de La Flèche au XVIIe siècle", Cahiers Fléchois, 6, 1984, pp. 28-41. J.-M. Pérouse de Montclos, L’architecture à la française, XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles, Paris, Picard, 1982, pp. 96-99. R.-A. Weigert, Inventaire du Fonds Français. Graveurs du
XVIIe siècle..., Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 5,
1968, "Jousse (Mathurin)", pp. 615-617.
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