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Traité historique et pratique de la gravure en bois /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Papillon, Jean-Michel, 1698-1776
Corporate Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Format: Book
Language:French
Published: A Paris : Chez Pierre Guillaume Simon ..., 1766.
Subjects:
Wood-engraving > History.
Wood-engraving > Technique.
Gravure sur bois > Histoire > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Gravure sur bois > Technique > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Description
Item Description:Volume 1: [1], xxii, 540 pages, [2] leaves of plates; volume 2: xv, [1], 388 pages, [5] leaves of plates; volume 3: [4], 124 pages.
Volume 2 and 3 issued in 1 v.
First edition in contemporary calf of Papillon's illustrated manual of woodcutting.
Includes samples of the several stages of wood-block printing; extensive head and tail pieces.
Includes index.
Purchased for the Cushing Library/Laughlin Collection by The Cushing Library.
Physical Description:3 volumes in 2 : illustrations, portrait, samples (some color) ; 21 cm. (octavo)