Anzeige und Auslegung Der Monogrammatum, einzeln und verzogenen Anfangsbuchstaben der Nahmen, auch anderer Züge und Zeichen, unter welchen berühmte Mahler, Kuperstecher, und andere dergleichen Künstler, auf ihren Wercken sich verborgen haben. Alles aus gutem Grunde, und aus den ersten Wercken selbst, ietzt von neuem genommen
first edition Calf
1747 · Leipzig, Germany
by Christen, Johan Frieder
Leipzig, Germany: In Verlage Caspar Fritschens Wittwe, 1747. First Edition. Calf. Very Good+. First Edition. Calf. Translation of title: Display and interpretation of the monograms, individual and distorted first letters of the names, as well as other features and symbols, under which famous painters, copperplate engravers, and other similar artists have hidden themselves in their works. All for good reason, and from the first works themselves, now taken anew. Analysis of initials of artists, printers in art and on paper. Tight, bright and unmarred. Foxing throughout, otherwise clean. 404 pp. + ornamentation, graphs Calf over boards, paper label on spine. Annotations. (Inventory #: 11026)