Albert durer revived book drawing (2 Ergebnisse)

Small folio (312 x 198 mm), [1], 21, [1] leaves, half-title with engraved portrait of Dürer on verso, 19 full-page engravings on rectos (6 partly coloured in amateur pink pencil) with text on numbered versos, publisher's advertisement on the verso of final leaf, text browned and lightly soiled, stitched as issued with half-title and publisher's advertisement as upper and lower covers, corners a little dog-eared, covers with light chipping to margins and just touching the border of the frontispiece. A rare early edition of a drawing manual which was first published by Thomas Jenner (1621-1672) in 1652 under the title 'A Book of Drawing', with a further edition appearing in 1666. On his death he was succeeded by the printseller John Garrett (1669-1718), who publisher further editions from whose shop "you may have choice of all sorts of large or small maps; coloured, or uncoloured, variety of Dutch and French prints, and prints done in Metzo-Tincto, very good Indian-ink to draw withal, and all sorts of the best copy-books, and Cocker's tutor to writing and arithmetick. and several sorts of coloured sashes to set before windows." All editions are rare and seldom appear in commerece, ESTC locating just a single complete copy of this edition at Harvard. …

Later edition. Later edition. Portrait frontispiece of Durer, 19 full-page engraved illustrations. [1], 21 leaves. Folio (11 x 7-3/4 in.). A generously illustrated manual for the 17th- and18th-century print and map seller, with detailed instructions for the making, printing, and presentation of prints. Originally published in 1652 under the title, A BOOK OF DRAWING, LIMNING, WASHING OR COLORING OF MAPS AND PRINTS, and often attributed to Thomas Jenner, it went through several subsequent editions as ALBERT DURER REVIVED This edition is not recorded in ESTC; and OCLC locates only three copies in the United States, and none in Great Britain. OCLC 8240325 (3 copies in US; none in UK); not in ESTC Modern thick marbled-paper wrappers, in modern cloth box; title and 17 pages of text shaved with slight loss to head or foot Portrait frontispiece of Durer, 19 full-page engraved illustrations. [1], 21 leaves. Folio (11 x 7-3/4 in.).…