John Shute had drawn on the text as early as 1563 for his book "The First and Chief Grounds of Architecture". Sir Henry Wotton's 1624 work "The Elements of Architecture" amounts to a heavily-influenced adaptation, while a 1692 translation was much abridged. English-speakers had to wait until 1771 for a full translation of the first five volumes and 1791 for the whole thing. Thanks to the art of printing, Vitruvius's work had become a popular subject of hermeneutics, with highly detailed and interpretive illustrations, and became widely dispersed.