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040 $aCMalG$cCMalG$edcrb
100 1 $aLairesse, Gérard de,$d1640-1711.
240 10 $aPrincipes du dessein.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe principles of drawing, or, An easy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art :$bbeing a compleat drawing book, containing a curious collection of examples in all the variety of cases, as the several parts of the human body, whole figures, landskips, cattle, &c. curiously engraved on copper-plates, after the designs of Albert Durer, Abrah. Bloemart, Carlo Morac, Le Clerc, Hollar, and other great masters : to which is prefix'd an introduction to drawing ... /$ctranslated from the French of Gerard De Lairesse and improved with abstracts from C.A. Du Fresnoy.
246 30 $aEasy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art
250 $aThe sixth edition.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles, in St. Paul's Church Yard,$cM.DCC.LXIV [1764]
300 $a[2], 8 p., [48] leaves of plates :$bill. ;$c35 cm. (fol.)
500 $aFirst published 1733. See ESTC.
500 $aFive plates by Henry Roberts after Antoine Watteau. Eight plates signed AM. One by Paul van Somer. Four by Wenceslas Hollar after Sebastian Franck, dated 1677. Three by François Vivares after Charles Natoire, Carle Vanloo and François Boucher.
510 4 $aESTC$cN25699
590 $aBinding: marbled paper, back and corners in calfskin.
590 $aOwnership inscription of John James, Cambridge, January 1795.
650 0 $aDrawing$xStudy and teaching$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aDrawing$xTechnique$vEarly works to 1800.
655 7 $aEtchings$zEngland$y18th century.$2aat
655 7 $aEngravings$zEngland$y18th century.$2aat
700 1 $aBoucher, François,$d1703-1770.
700 1 $aBowles, John,$d1701-1779.
700 1 $aBowles, Carington,$d1724-1793.
700 1 $aDufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse,$d1611-1668.
700 1 $aFranck, Sebastian,$d1499-1542.
700 1 $aHollar, Wenceslaus,$d1607-1677.
700 1 $aNatoire, Charles Joseph,$d1700-1777.
700 1 $aRoberts, Henry,$dca. 1710-ca. 1790.
700 1 $aSomer, Paul van,$d1649-1694.
700 1 $aVanloo, Carle,$d1705-1765.
700 1 $aVivarès, François,$d1709-1780.
700 1 $aWatteau, Antoine,$d1684-1721.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
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