83 fine 18th c. plates on drawing instruction
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Author: Preissler, Johann Daniel and Johann Georg Bergmu?ller, et al.
Title: Die Durch Theorie Erfundene practic... [with] Anthropometria, Sive Statura Hominis à Nativitate ad consummatum aetatis...
Place Published: Nu?rnberg and Augspurg [sic]
Publisher:Preissler; Lotter
Date Published: 1723; 1728-1734
Description:
Author: Preissler, Johann Daniel and Johann Georg Bergmu?ller, et al.
Title: Die Durch Theorie Erfundene practic... [with] Anthropometria, Sive Statura Hominis à Nativitate ad consummatum aetatis...
Place Published: Nu?rnberg and Augspurg [sic]
Publisher:Preissler; Lotter
Date Published: 1723; 1728-1734
Description:
5 volumes in 1. 83 engraved plates. (4to) 34.5x22.5 cm (13½x8¾"), half leather bound.
An important set of four volumes, originally issued separately, of fine engravings and instructional texts in the art of drawing. Johann Daniel Preissler's texts and plates were widely circulated and copied through the 18th century as a model for art instruction. Also bound in is a work on human proportions from birth through maturity with 12 plates by Johann Georg Bergmu?ller.
Full collation of volume: [Preissler] Engraved frontispiece, [8] leaves, 18 engravings; [4] leaves, 18 engravings; [4] leaves, 18 engravings; [2] leaves, 16 engravings; [Bergmu?ller]: [2] leaves, 12 engravings.
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Boards heavily rubbed; hinges starting to separate; extensive notes on front pastedown; bottom page corners soiled; some foxing; still very good.
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83 fine 18th c. plates on drawing instruction
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