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Title: De La manière de graver a l’eauforte et au burin. Et de la gravûre en manière noire.
Avec la façon de consttruire les presses modernes, & d’imprimer en Taille-douce ...
Nouvelle édition. Revûe, corrigée & augmentée du double, et enrichie de dix-neuf planches en taille-douce. Comments: The engravings for the 1745 and 1773 editions are very similar, but their plate-numbers vary. In the 1745 edition, the numbers of the six shown images are 14 until 18. In the 1773 version, these plates are numbere 16 to 20. The scans of the 1745 edition can be found on: Chapter Opening (page 129), 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18. There are also scans on the Bibliothèque numérique de Lyon on Chapter Opening, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Roger Gaskell Catalogue 50 (2014) item 4 states: ‘Eleven of the plates are from the original coppers which Bosse made for the 1645 edition ... The plates of the present work are made up as follows: Technique: Engravings. Publications Roger Gaskell (2004) ‘Printing house and engraving shop. A mysterious collaboration.’ Book Collector, 53, pp 213-54. |
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