DE LA MANIÈRE DE GRAVER À L'EAU FORTE ET AU BURIN, ET DE LA GRAVURE EN MANIÈRE NOIRE AVEC LA FAÇON DE CONSTRUIRE LES PRESSES MODERNES & D'IMPRIMER EN TAILLE-DOUCE. NOUVELLE ÉDITION [...].
by Abraham Bosse
Paris, Jombert; 1745
first treatise dealing with copper-engraving
With engraved frontispiece, 4 Vignettes and 19 copper plates (of 21)
XXXII, 186 pp., 3 lvs.
Original calf, spine with raised bands decorated in gilt, worn. Marbled edges.
Good interior.
- Bigmore/Wyman p. 72: "... a work notable for its completeness for the time of its production, and for its plates, which have been reproduced by most subsequent writers on art"
Size 5 by 7 3/4"
Text in French

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