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THÉVENOT, Melchisédec (1620-1692). The Art of Swimming. London: Dan. Brown, T. Leigh and D. Midwinter, and Robert Knaplock, 1699.
12° (150 x 87mm). 40 etched plates. (Occasional very light spotting, some leaves trimmed at head touching running-title, small inkmark on title, lacking half-title and advertisement leaves \Kc\k1-4.) 19th-century speckled calf gilt, red sprinkled edges (extremities lightly rubbed, lacks lettering-piece).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. The first edition was published posthumously in Paris in 1696 by Thomas Moette as L'art de nager (which is claimed, in the preface, to be 'the first treatise of this kind that has ever appeared in the French Tongue', A11v). It was followed three years later by this English edition, which seems to have used the etched plates of the French edition, with the page numbers that the plates should face re-engraved. Two other English editions appeared in 1764 and 1789. Lowndes p. 2664; Wing T-888; cf. Graesse VII, p. 133 (note).
12° (150 x 87mm). 40 etched plates. (Occasional very light spotting, some leaves trimmed at head touching running-title, small inkmark on title, lacking half-title and advertisement leaves \Kc\k1-4.) 19th-century speckled calf gilt, red sprinkled edges (extremities lightly rubbed, lacks lettering-piece).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. The first edition was published posthumously in Paris in 1696 by Thomas Moette as L'art de nager (which is claimed, in the preface, to be 'the first treatise of this kind that has ever appeared in the French Tongue', A11v). It was followed three years later by this English edition, which seems to have used the etched plates of the French edition, with the page numbers that the plates should face re-engraved. Two other English editions appeared in 1764 and 1789. Lowndes p. 2664; Wing T-888; cf. Graesse VII, p. 133 (note).
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