1745 ILLUSTRATED TREATISE on COPPER ENGRAVING antique DE LA MANIÈRE DE GRAVER

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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