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Edition Notes
By Roger de Piles. See BN.
Etched t.p. vignette and 9 in-text ill. The 20 numbered plates are those by Corneille. The [32] unnumbered plates are etchings by Sébastien Leclerc, the 1st of which bears title: Figures d'academie pour aprendre à désiner, grauées par Sebastien LeClerc (A Paris Chez N. Langlois, rue St. Jacques à la Victoire). They were produced around 1665 and appeared previously with Charles-Alphonse Du Fresnoy's L'art de peinture, translated by Roger de Piles (Paris : Nicolas Langlois, 1673). See BN.
Signatures: ap6s A-Hp8+4s.
BN. Dépt. des estampes. Fond français, XVIIe siècle, Sébastien Leclerc I, 1055-1086
Getty copies 1 & 2 lack all plates. Copy 3 lacks one of Leclerc's plates, called for by BN (no. 1071, depicting John the Baptist); it includes an engraved frontispiece, not part of the present work, with imprint of Charles Antoine Jombert, Paris, 1751.
Binding, c. 1: sprinkled calfskin; spine tooled in gilt, abbreviated title on label; edges of boards rolled in gilt; page edges sprinkled red. Signatures on t.p. of Gaucher, Chevilley, and J. Foucon, the last dated 28 Sept. 1780 at Langres.
Binding, c. 2: as c. 1, apparently by the same binder. Inscription on front pastedown and facing endpaper, which begins: Ministère de la marine et des colonies. Liste, par ordre de mérite des élèves nommés à l'école navale par décision du ministère de la marine du 16 octobre 1843... [followed by 50 names]. Ulrich Middeldorf's printed label. Stamp at head of title: Clessard. Signature on t.p. of Causier Le Jeune.
Binding, c. 3: old mottled calfskin; spine tooled in gilt (label wanting); traces of gilt rolls on edges of boards; page edges red; blue ribbon place marker. Ulrich Middeldorf's printed label. Title leaf of Leclerc's sequence of plates bound before those of Corneille.
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