The excellency of the pen and pencil : exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures. Also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours. Collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and here inserted for examples for the learner to practice by. A work very useful for all gentlemen, and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others.
1668
Items
Details
Title
The excellency of the pen and pencil : exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures. Also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours. Collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and here inserted for examples for the learner to practice by. A work very useful for all gentlemen, and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others.
Created/published
London : Printed by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones, and are to be sold at their shops in Little Britain, near the Lame Hospital Gate, at the Chyrurgeons Arms, and at the Golden Lyon, 1668.
Description
[16], 48, 45-121, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; (4to)
Associated name
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Note
With additional engraved title page (plate).
Cited/described in
Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (CD-ROM, 1996), E3779
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R22483
English short title catalogue (ESTC), R22483
Linked resources
Blog post about Folger Shakespeare Library 141- 977q: "Marks in Manuals", The Collation (16 April 2020)
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
141- 977q