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Creator:
Evelyn, John, 1620–1706
Title(s):
Sculptura; or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper: with ample enumeration of the most renowned masters and their works. To which is annexed, a new manner of engraving, or mezzotinto, communicated by His Highness Prince Rupert to the author of this treatise.
Edition:
The 2d ed., containing ... memoirs of the author's life.
Published/Created:
London, J. Murray, 1769.
Physical Description:
3 p.l., [iii]-xxxvi, 140 p. front. (port.) 2 plates (1 fold.) 19 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE1760 E9 1769
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC,RB: Imperfect: frontispiece wanting.
BAC,RB: The sheets of the 1755 ed., with a cancelled t.-p.--Cf. Keynes, Geoffrey. John Evelyn. Oxford, 1968, p. 122.
BAC,RB: The frontispiece is by Thomas Worlidge, after Nanteuil; the fold. plate is a copy by Houston of the original, which was engraved by Prince Rupert, after Spagnoletto.
BAC,RB: Bookplate of Howard C. Levis.
SML,AOB: Copy imperfect: 2nd p.l. wanting.
Subject Terms:
Engraving -- Early works to 1800.
Engraving -- History.
Mezzotint engraving.
Contributors:
Rupert, Prince, Count Palatine, 1619–1682.
Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700–1766.
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