Sculptura-historico-technica: or The history and art of ingraving.
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About This Item
London: Printed for S. Harding, on the Pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1747.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xii, 112, [i], 112-225, [i]pp. A6, B12-K12, L6 (- L6 blank). First edition. With a folding chart at the end. Publisher's advertisement, [1] p. at end. Pages 111-112 repeated in numbering; signature F has 13 leaves. Contemporary calf, double rule fillets, repaired. With ten engraved plates of the techniques of engraving. Large folding letterpress table of artists bound between pp. 162 & 163, and numerous metalcut artists' marks and cyphers to the text. Bigmore & Wyman II, 332; Levis, The Bibliography of Engraving, p. 37; ESTC T84861. From the library of Sir Edward Littleton, Barrister.
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- Sam Gatteno Books (US)
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- 2029
- Title
- Sculptura-historico-technica: or The history and art of ingraving.
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- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Publisher
- London: Printed for S. Harding, on the Pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1747.
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- Eighteenth Century Books; Artbooks;
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