Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In seven books by Salmon, William - 1685

ECCO Print Editions. PB. fine, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. Reprint of the 1701 printing - on the shelf and ready to ship. "...VERNISHING, JAPANING, GILDING, &C." Volume 1 and Volume 2 - Two Volume Set Complete. 2 vols, 939pp.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Gale ECCO, Print Editions. paperback. New. 7x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Gale ECCO, Print Editions. paperback. New. 7x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain, 1685. Early Printing. Full Calf. Near Fine. The most popular of Salmon's numerous books, here in the greatly expanded fifth edition. Thick crown 8vo (186 x 109mm): [64],767,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Salmon at age 27 and additional engraved pictorial title page (both by W. Sherwin) and 23 numbered leaves of plates. Contemporary brown calf boards beautifully rebacked to style, spine in six compartments between gilt-ruled raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, end papers renewed. Small old ink blot at lower right corner of plates (never entering image), plate xvi embrowned, else a handsome, tightly bound copy, generally clean throughout with only occasional light foxing and stains and toning to page edges. Wing S448. Lowndes III, 2180. Levis (Bib of Engraving), pp. 14-15. Originally published in 1672, this edition "enlarged with above a… Read More

London.: Robert White for John Crumpe., 1678.. Contemporary calf, rebacked, with all edges marbled.. 8vo.. Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title, letterpress title printed in red and black, dedication to the Earl of Norwich, preface to the reader, 12 plates, portrait of the King and Queen, 5 plates, table of contents, index and advertisement. 'The Fourth Edition, with many large Additions: Adorned with Sculptures: The like never yet extant.' William Salmon (1644-1713), was a widely read and learned man, with a taste for the obscure. His library, which was sent to auction after his death, contained works in French, Greek, Latin and Hebrew, on medicine and other subjects.The Polygraphice is a work in 4 books, a book on drawing, one on etching and engraving, one on painting and one on the 'Perfection of the Arts'. There are also 2 treatises on chiromancy, the first in book one and the second in book four.