BOSSE, ABRAHAM. 1604-1676.
De la manière de graver à l'eau forte et au burin. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1745.
De la manière de graver à l'eau forte et au burin. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1745.
8vo (195 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece and dedication page, 19 folding engraved plates, engraved headers in text. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with 6 raised bands. Upper joint and hinge cracked, cover loose, chipping and rubbing to corners, minor spotting.
WITH: [BOUTET, CLAUDE.] Traité de mignature, pour apprendre aisément à Peindre sans Maître. Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1711. 12mo (155 x 92 mm). 1 woodcut illustration in text. Contemporary mottled calf. Joints cracking, wear to corners, ink ownership inscriptions on both sides of title, scattered browning.
Third edition of Bosse's fundamental manual on engraving, originally published in 1645. The text of this edition was expanded and edited by Charles-Nicolas Cochin. Cohen-de Ricci 177. Along with French artist Boutet's manual on miniature painting, first published in 1672. Barbier IV, 771.
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De la manière de graver à l'eau forte et au burin. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1745.
De la manière de graver à l'eau forte et au burin. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1745.
8vo (195 x 120 mm). Engraved frontispiece and dedication page, 19 folding engraved plates, engraved headers in text. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with 6 raised bands. Upper joint and hinge cracked, cover loose, chipping and rubbing to corners, minor spotting.
WITH: [BOUTET, CLAUDE.] Traité de mignature, pour apprendre aisément à Peindre sans Maître. Paris: Christophe Ballard, 1711. 12mo (155 x 92 mm). 1 woodcut illustration in text. Contemporary mottled calf. Joints cracking, wear to corners, ink ownership inscriptions on both sides of title, scattered browning.
Third edition of Bosse's fundamental manual on engraving, originally published in 1645. The text of this edition was expanded and edited by Charles-Nicolas Cochin. Cohen-de Ricci 177. Along with French artist Boutet's manual on miniature painting, first published in 1672. Barbier IV, 771.
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