Albert Durer Revived: or, a Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing, or Coloring of Maps and Prints: and the Art of Painting, with the Names and Mixtures of Colors Used by Picture-Drawers. With Directions How to Lay and Paint Pictures Upon Glass. Or, the Young-Man's Time Well Spent.
London: for Thomas Glass, 1731.
Price: $3,750.00
About the item
Later edition. Portrait frontispiece of Durer, 19 full-page engraved illustrations. [1], 21 leaves. Folio (11 x 7-3/4 in.). Modern thick marbled-paper wrappers, in modern cloth box; title and 17 pages of text shaved with slight loss to head or foot. OCLC 8240325 (3 copies in US; none in UK); not in ESTC.
Item #236973
A generously illustrated manual for the 17th- and18th-century print and map seller, with detailed instructions for the making, printing, and presentation of prints. Originally published in 1652 under the title, A BOOK OF DRAWING, LIMNING, WASHING OR COLORING OF MAPS AND PRINTS, and often attributed to Thomas Jenner, it went through several subsequent editions as ALBERT DURER REVIVED
This edition is not recorded in ESTC; and OCLC locates only three copies in the United States, and none in Great Britain.
