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Work Type armorial bookplates (provenance)

Subject Terms Painting -- Early works to 1800.

1. The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters: containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints. With reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern ... Tr. from the French of Monsieur de Piles. To which is added, An essay towards an English school.

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Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: [1754?]
Physical Description:: 8 p.l., 439 p. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The principles of painting ... To which is added, The balance of painters. Being the names of the most noted painters, and their degrees of perfection in the four principal parts of their art ... Written originally in French by Mons. Du Piles ... And now first translated into English. By a painter.

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Creator:: Piles, Roger de, 1635–1709
Date:: 1743
Physical Description:: xii, 300, [8] p. II plates. 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts