Het gulden cabinet vande edel vry schilder const inhoudende den lof vande vermarste schilders, architecte[n], beldtho[u]wers ende plaetsnyders van dese eeuw.

4to: [2]-584 pp. (missing the final 3 pp. containing the "errata", "approbatie" and the imprint, missing 2 engr. portraits and 4 allegorical pl.; almost all engr. cut out and pasted on later paper, some def. underl. in the margins, lower border p. 583 underl. missing some of the printed text).

Later vellum, spine with raised bands, brown leather title label, mod. endpapers. Uncut copy. S.w.a.f.

First and only edition of this dictionary of (largely) contemporary painters, by the Lier poet C. de Bie (1627-1711), son of the painter Adriaan de Bie, and a magistrate and part-time writer and poet. Engr. ill.: title by C. Meyssens after A. van Diepenbeeck, 95 full-page portraits and 1 id. allegorical pl. The work can be seen as a 17th-c. continuation of the works of Vasari and Van Mander on Flemish and Dutch painters.
Ref. BB I:242-247:B-188 (ext. descr.). - Arntzen/Rainwater H55. - STCV.