Architecture, First English Book of

Architecture, First English Book of. The first book known to have been published in England on the subject of architecture was entitled The First & Chief Grounds of Architecture, by John Shute, Paynter & Archytecte, first printed in 1563 and reprinted in facsimile in 1912 by Laurence Weaver, F. S. A., Hon. A.R.I.B.A.