L'Art de Peindre, Claude Henri Watelet, First edition, 1760, Leather

  

Period speckled calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, five engraved vignettes showing putti reading, drawing etc. Eight portrait medallions, seven culs-de-lampe, and two full-page plates, by Watelet after Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, and three culs-de-lampe by Marguerite Lecomte.

Minor rubbing; a few leaves browned, 5 leaves with marginal creasing and short tears, a few insk spots on front, near fine. Watelet, a wealthy dilettante, was elected to the Académie Française on the strength of this didactic poem. The second half of the work is decorated with his vignettes, for he was a talented etcher. Diderot said that if he had a copy of Watelet's poem he would cut out the illustrations and frame them under glass, and throw the rest in the fire.

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• Year Printed: 1760
• Topic: Poetry
• Binding: Leather
• Author: Claude Henri Watelet
• Subject: Literature & Fiction
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Language: French
• Publisher: H.
  Delatour
• Place of Publication: Paris
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition