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Published by London. Boydell and Co. Circa 1840, 1840
Seller: Charles Russell, ABA, ILAB, est 1978, Cirencester, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3 volumes folio 17x12 inches, leather bound in period half red morocco over marbled boards, with the spines neatly relaid. Period marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 2 mezzotint portraits of Claude Lorrain and Earlom, 1 stipple-engraved portrait of John Boydell, and 300 ETCHINGS WITH MEZZOTINT, all printed in bistre by Earlom after Claude Lorrain. Text and plates complete. UNUSUALLY FINE CLEAN PLATES without any of the usual spotting. Peabody Trust bookplates and some stamps removed from versos. The 300 etchings of drawings by Claude Lorrain are pastoral, mythological, and biblical subjects, and the work was called Liber Veritatis - Book of Truth- for the purpose of identifying Lorrain's genuine works from forgeries, or from drawings wrongly attributed to the master- (Abbey). First published between 1777 and 1819, the present set is a 19th century edition, with the text and plates printed on unwatermarked wove paper. Lovely clean DECORATIVE bucolic plates. Bibliography- Abbey Life 200, Brunet III:1169, Cohen-De Ricci 242.
Published by [vols.I-II] published by Messrs. Boydell & Co, printed by W.Bulmer & Co; [vol.III:] published by Hurst, Robinson & Co., printed by Thomas Davison, London, 1819
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
3 volumes, small folio. (16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches). 2 mezzotint portraits (of Claude and Earlom), 1 stipple-engraved portrait of John Boydell. 300 etchings with mezzotint, all printed in bistre, all by Earlom after Claude. Expertly bound to style in half russia over period marbled paper covered boards "The first complete edition, with the engravings [sic.] in the best and final state, embodying the important drawings from the great English collections of the period" (Abbey). "This capital work, a landmark in the history of the reproduction of master drawings, is . an important forerunner of later publications on [Art Collections]. It contains 300 etchings of drawings by Claude Lorrain, pastoral, mythological, and biblical subjects, and was called Liber Veritatis [Book of Truth] for the purpose of identifying Claude's genuine works from forgeries, or from drawings wrongly attributed to the master. They are all printed in a warm bistre colour to aid the resemblance . The catalogues in each volume give a comprehensive description of each drawing, indicating also for whom they were executed, which pictures were painted from them, and the ownership at the date of publication of the book - in short, a real catalogue raisonné" (Abbey). Abbey Life 200; Lowndes II, p.1398.