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For the curious young gentlemen and ladies, that study and practice that study and practice the commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning, : a new and compleat drawing-book ... / being the close study, for a series of years, of the late Mr. Lens ... in sixty-two copper-plates, engrav'd by himself ... ; to which is prefixed an introduction to drawing ; ... translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse, and improved with extracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy, Salmon, &c. ...

Accession number
PML 86181
Creator
Lens, Bernard, 1682-1740.
Published
London : Printed for B. Dickinson, at the corner of Bell-Savage-Inn, on Ludgate Hill, 1752.
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1999.
Notes
The text draws on 'Les principes du dessein' by Gérard de Lairesse and 'De arte graphica' by Charles Alphonse Dufresnoy.
Signatures: [pi]² A-K² L¹; [1-62¹]
ESTC T212761 recorded as oblong quarto, but probably oblong octavo as the first edition, ESTC T137504.
Description
[4], 42 p., [62] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 21 cm (oblong 8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Plates 20, 21, 25, and 50 with some hand-coloring.
Provenance
T. Brown, 1786, signature (front pastedown); Ann W[???], signature (title page); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1999.
Binding
Quarter calf with green paper boards. Previous stab-sewing holes from former binding visible.
Classification
Book
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Department
Printed Books