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Ars pictoria, or, An academy treating of drawing, limning, painting, etching : to which are added XXXI copper plates, expressing the choicest, nearest, and most exact grounds and rules of symmetry / collected out of the most eminent Italian, German and Netherland authors by Alexander Browne ...

Accession number
PML 77202
Creator
Browne, Alexander, active 1660-1677.
Published
London : Printed for Arthur Tooker ... and William Battersby ... , 1675.
Notes
"A catalogue of plates ... sold by Arthur Tooker," appendix, p. [41].
"An appendix to the art of painting in miniture or limning" has separate t.p. and pagination.
Library's copy: 2nd t.p. follows the general t.p., plates 29 and 30 follow p. 28 and plate 31 follows p. 30. This copy lacking "A catalogue of plates".
Most of the plates engraved by A. de Jode, copied (?) chiefly from A. Bloemaert's Oorspronkelyk en vermaar konstryk tekenboek.
Signatures: pi1 2pi-3pi² A-2E² chi1 2F-2P².
T.p. in red and black.
Description
[10], 110, [4], 39, [3] p., [1], 31 leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 31 cm
Binding
1/2 brown calf, marbled boards.
Classification
Department