
Lot 10•
DRAWING MANUAL Albert Durer Revived, [1679]
11 March 2020, 13:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,785 inc. premium
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DRAWING MANUAL
Albert Durer Revived: Or, a Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing, or Colouring of Maps and Prints... With Directions How to Lay and Paint Pictures upon Glass, half-title with engraved portrait of Durer on verso, 18 full-page engraved illustrations (6 partly coloured in amateur pink pencil), spotting and soiling, stitched as issued with half-title and publisher's advertisement as upper and lower cover [ESTC R172136, citing 2 copies only, both Harvard], small folio (312 x 198mm.), John Garrett, [1679]
Footnotes
Rare early edition of a drawing manual, ESTC citing only 2 copies (both at Harvard). This edition was published by John Garrett, at whose shop "you may have choice of all sorts of large or small maps; coloured, or uncoloured, variety of Dutch and French prints, and prints done in Metzo-Tincto, very good Indian-ink to draw withal, and all sorts of the best copy-books, and Cocker's tutor to writing and arithmetick... and several sorts of coloured sashes to set before windows".