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The title of Vitruvius's treatise is lost, if it originally had one. The editio princeps, printed at Rome, in or about 1486, bears no title. The unique position of this treatise is, however, sufficiently clear from the fact that since its first appearance in the fifteenth century there have been till 1807 forty-two editions of the work, practically in all the Eurepean languages. There are seventeen editions in Latin, eleven in Italian, two in Spanish, six in French, four in German, and two in English¹. It is divided into ten books, which too do not bear any titles. Each book contains a number of chapters varying from seven to twenty-two. The chapters also have not any proper titles. The treatise deals with both civil