Evelyn's Sculptura : with the unpublished second part / edited by C. F. Bell.
By: Evelyn, John
Contributor(s): Bell, C. F. (Charles Francis)
| Bosse, Abraham. Traicté des manières de graver en taille douce sur l'airin
Series: : Publisher: [Oxford] : Clarendon Press, MCMVI [1906]Description: xxiv, [32], 151, viii, 32 pages : illustrations, plates, facsimiles ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Engraving -- History | Mezzotint engraving | Engraving -- Early works to 1800LOC classification: NE1700 | .E92
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With photographic reproduction of original title: Sculptura; or The history, and art of chalcography and engraving in copper ... To which is annexed a new manner of engraving, or mezzo tinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the authour of this treatise ... London, Printed by I. C. for G. Beedle, and T. Collins ... 1662.
"[Part I] is, in the main, a reprint of the first [edition, 1662] with some corrections and additions ... which were incorporated in the second [1755]"--page xx.
Part II consists of the author's translation of the appendix to Abraham Bosse's "Traicté des manières de graver en taille douce sur l'airin," and is printed from the manuscript in the library of the Royal society.
Introduction to part II signed: A. H. Church.