Live veiling - Lot 292
[Engraving]
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 [...].
Paris, Ch.-A. Jombert, 1758
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Beschrijving lot
8vo: xxxii-205-[3] pp. (margins sl. browned, margins of front. browned, sm. hole near lower gutter on last quires).
Contemp. marbled sheep, flat spine, red leather title label, marbled endpapers, all edges blue (corners def., sides and joints rubbed, def. at head and tail).
Later ed. (1st: 1645) revised by Charles-Nicolas Cochin of the first treatise dealing with copper-engraving. Augmented with instructions on "l'impression qui imite les tableaux; de la gravure en manière de crayon, & de celle qui imite lavis". Illustrated with a front., 21 fold. pl., 4 historiated headp. by Fessard or Soubeyran after Cochin or Bosse, and with p. aii recto entirely engraved decorated with a large incipit. Bookseller's catalogue in fine (6 pp.).
Ref. BnF.