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LE BLON, Jacob Christoph (1670-1741). L’art d’imprimer les tableaux. Paris: P.G. Le Mercier, Jean-Luc Nyon and Michel Lambert, 1756.
2 parts, 8° (198 x 120mm). Half-title, 3 folding engraved plates, one printed in colour and finished by hand, woodcut initial and headpieces. (Top edge of first plate cropped as usual, light browning, a few spots.) Contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments with lettering-piece (joints cracked but cords holding, head of spine chipped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Arnaud de Vitry, sold at Sotheby’s, 11 April 2002, lot 515.
FIRST EDITION THUS, RARE. Le Bon, a painter and engraver from Frankfurt, is the father of three-colour printing. His process was patented in London in 1719. The plate printed in colour depicts an artist’s palette. The second part, 'L'harmonie du coloris dans la peinture', is printed with parallel English and French texts, having originally been published separately about 1720.
2 parts, 8° (198 x 120mm). Half-title, 3 folding engraved plates, one printed in colour and finished by hand, woodcut initial and headpieces. (Top edge of first plate cropped as usual, light browning, a few spots.) Contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments with lettering-piece (joints cracked but cords holding, head of spine chipped, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Arnaud de Vitry, sold at Sotheby’s, 11 April 2002, lot 515.
FIRST EDITION THUS, RARE. Le Bon, a painter and engraver from Frankfurt, is the father of three-colour printing. His process was patented in London in 1719. The plate printed in colour depicts an artist’s palette. The second part, 'L'harmonie du coloris dans la peinture', is printed with parallel English and French texts, having originally been published separately about 1720.
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