The excellency of the pen and pencil : exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and to preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and are here inserted for examples to the learner to practice by : a work very useful for all gentlemen, and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, contributor.

Newman, Dorman, bookseller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drawing--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800.

Drawing.

Drawing--Early works to 1800.

Art--Technique--Early works to 1800.

Art.

Art--Technique.

Drawing--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Wood, Charles (donor) (Kislak copy)

Shore, Frank (bookplate) (Kislak copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 48, 45-61, 78-91, 76-123 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations (copper engravings) ; 17 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

e;a- 7.on r.ll chad (3) 1688 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Dorman Newman, at the Kings-Arms in the Poultrey, M DC LXXXVIII [1688]

Notes:

Signatures: A⁸ ²A⁸ B-H⁸.

Frontispiece illustration has imprint: London Printed for Rich. Jones & Dorman Newman and are to be sold at their shops at the Golden Lyon and Chrurgions Armes in Little Brittaine.

Local Notes:

Kislak copy NC705 .E9 1688 was presented to the Penn Libraries by Charles Wood.

Cited in:

National Union Catalog (NUC pre-1956) NE 0218254 (Vol. 164, p. 484)

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) R11233

OCLC:

1053159600