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251. BOSSE Abr., Traicté des manières de graver en taille douce sur l’airaïn par le moyen de l’eaux forte et des vernix durs et mols. Ensemble de façons d’en emprimer les planches et d’en construire la presse et autres choses concernentes les dits arts, Paris, chez le dit Bosse, 1645, in 8.
Tavole 19 comprese il frontispizio figurato: in questo esemplare la tavola 6 è impressa da entrambe le parte del foglio. Prima edizione.
Tavole 19 comprese il frontispizio figurato: in questo esemplare la tavola 6 è impressa da entrambe le parte del foglio. Prima edizione.
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Traicté des manieres de graver en taille douce sur l'airin. : Par le moyen des eaux fortes, & des vernix durs & mols. : Ensemble de la façon d'en imprimer les planches & d'en construire la presse, & autres choses concernans lesdits arts. / Par A. Bosse, graueur en taille douce.

Publication date(s):
MDCXLV [1645] and 1645
Other title(s):
Manieres de graver a l'eau forte en cuivre
Author:
Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676 author, engraver, publisher.
Imprint:
A Paris, : Chez ledit Bosse, en l'Isle du Palais, à la Roze rouge, deuant la megisserie
Language:
French
Cicognara number:
251
Note(s):
  • Title on first, engraved added title page: Manieres [de] graver a leau forte en cuivre.
  • Title and statement of responsibility on second engraved added title page: Traicté des manieres de graver en taille douce sur lairin. Par le moyen des eaues fortes et des vernix durs et mols. Ensemble de la façon d'en imprimer les planches, et d'en construire la presse. Par A. Bosse de la ville de Tours, graueur en taille douce.
  • Engravings by Abraham Bosse.
  • First edition.
  • Printer statement from colophon, on page 75.
  • Signatures: pi1 2pi2 A-I4 K2 [$1-2 signed ( -B2, K2)].
  • The 18 numbered plates are, in different states, on 11-13 leaves. Two plate numbers -- 5 and 6 -- are each repeated on both sides of a leaf, for a total of 4 plates. Ten other plates are, in most copies, printed on two sides of the same leaf: plates 1-2, plates 9-10, plates 11-12, plates 13-14, and plates 15-16. Each of the remaining 4 numbered plates -- 3, 4, 7, and 8 -- is printed on a separate leaf.
  • Unnumbered plates: Two engraved added title pages, one with ornamental border, the other illustrated; the illustrated title page leaf is bound as a frontispiece in some copies. The dedication also begins with an engraving (on preliminary page 3), which is sometimes counted as a 3rd unnumbered plate, in other words, as one of 21 plates in total.
  • Two added title pages for individual sections, not illustrated, are included in the regular foliation (unnumbered page 39, leaf E4 recto, and unnumbered page 55, leaf G4 recto).
  • In Tulane University copy: The first engraved added title page is bound as a frontispiece, preceding the main title page, which has been tipped in. The second engraved added title page is bound between unnumbered page 56 and page 57 (between leaves G4 and H1), rather than preceding the beginning of the main text on page 1 (preceding leaf A1) as, for example, the BnF copy as digitized and presented in Gallica and the Getty Research Institute and Duke University copies as digitized in HathiTrust appear to be bound. The 18 numbered plates are on 13 leaves, since plates 9, 10, 11, and 12 (in addition to plates 3, 4, 7, and 8) are each printed on a separate leaf. As bound, plates 3, 4, 7, 8, and 11 appear on the recto of their individual leaves, while plates 9, 10, and 12 appear on the verso of their individual leaves. LNT
Related name(s):
Des Hayes, Pierre, -1659, printer.
Subject:
Engraving, Technique, Etching, and Early works to 1800
DCL number:
g2f