NOTIONS PRATIQUES SUR L'ART DE LA PEINTURE. ENRICHIES D'EXAMPLES LES GRAND MAITRES.
signed Hardcover
1835 · Paris
by BURNET, JOHN PAR.
Paris: Chez Rittner Et Goupil, Ed. ., 1835. Cloth irregularly faded and stained. Front joint cracked. Translated from the English by P.C. Van Geel. Early example of lithography as a reprint of earlier English Edition. Includes three of Burnet's books on painting which include: DE LA COMPOSITION, LUMIERE ET OMBRE, and DE LA COULEUR. The first two parts with 17 plates and a total of 81 lithographic reporductions of etchings. The third part has eight plates with a total of 26 stone . lithographs and some printed in brilliant colors, others hand-colored. Foxing throughout but plates with minor foxing. Full page frontispiece portrait, signed in the stone. Overall a good copy of this significant work on lithography in French. 145pp.. Early French Edition.. Brown Cloth. General Wear./No Jacket. Quarto. (Inventory #: 001094)