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Lomazzo. Artes of Curious Paintinge

Lomazzo (Giovanni Paolo) A Tracte containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge & Buildinge,

first edition in English, engraved title-page, 13 full-page engravings, head and tail pieces, lacking final leaf containing colophon, C6 illustration frayed at fore-edge and mounted on stub, bookplate from the Macclesfield Library, occasional light damp-staining, eighteenth century vellum over blue boards, soiled and bumped, ms. title to spine, [STC 16698], folio, 1598.

***First English translation of Lamazzo's Trattato: "It was the first book on the arts to be translated and the reason for its choice must have been its thorough treatment of painting..." Harris p.297. The images produced in this edition were supplied by Haydock and are his earliest extant work. The original edition was unillustrated..