A Touchstone for the Arts

CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS [ 1 ] A TOUCHSTONE FOR THE ARTS Catalogue 167 CHARLES B. WOOD III, INC. Antiquarian Booksellers Post Office Box 382369 Cambridge, MA 02238 USA Tel [617] 868-1711 Fax [617] 868-2960 [email protected] [ 2 ] CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS A TOUCHSTONE FOR THE ARTS Art History ................................................................................................ 1 - 10 Artists’ Manuals ....................................................................................... 11 - 25 Bookbinding ............................................................................................ 26 - 38 Books of Secrets & Receipts ..................................................................... 39 - 47 Building Technology & Conservation ...................................................... 48 - 52 Cabinetmaking & Furniture ..................................................................... 53 - 66 Color Printing & Chromolithography ...................................................... 67 - 83 Colors, Paints, Pigments .......................................................................... 84 - 96 Dyeing, Weaving & Textile Technology................................................... 97 - 116 Glass & Ceramics ................................................................................... 117 - 126 Gold, Silver & Pewtersmithing............................................................... 127 - 134 Inks ........................................................................................................ 135 - 139 Lithography ........................................................................................... 140 - 161 Paper ..................................................................................................... 162 - 180 Perspective ............................................................................................. 181 - 189 Printing & Type Specimens.................................................................... 190 - 217 Restoration & Conservation of Paintings ............................................... 218 - 223 Varnish .................................................................................................. 224 - 229 Miscellany .............................................................................................. 230 - 246 CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS [ 3 ] ART HISTORY FIRST APPEARANCE OF VASARI IN ENGLISH 1. AGLIONBY, WILLIAM. Painting illustrated in three dialogues, containing some choice observations upon the art. Together with the lives of the most eminent painters, from Cimabue, to the time of Raphael and Michael Angelo. With an explanation of the difficult terms. London: Printed by John Gain for the author, 1685 $1250.00 First edition, of particular note as the first appearance of any part of Vasari in English (the lives of Cimabue, Ghiotto, Lionardo, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael, Giorgione, Michael Angelo, Giulio Romano, Perino del Vaga, Titian and Donato, Item #1 a sculptor [all spellings sic]). The preface contains brief remarks on the author’s English contemporaries such as of his approach, it became the authoritative version for his Inigo Jones, Grinling Gibbons, Dobson, Walker, Riley and own and later generations.” - Collins & Land, Early books on the miniaturists Oliver and Cooper. He intended a second art, no. 37. volume on the lives of the painters from the Carracci onwards The Le Clerc bound at the end consists of an engraved but this was never published. Following the preface are three title page and 30 engraved plates of muscular male nudes, dialogues explaining the art of painting, the history of some draped, some set in landscapes. These were presumably painting and ‘how to know good pictures.’ Then, finally, put there to serve as models for artists to copy. Berlin comes the major section, the lives from Vasari. Wing A 764. Catalogue 4619 lists the second edition of the Du Fresnoy Rostenberg, Engl publishers in the graphic arts, p. 98 (B53). with the Le Clerc bound in. Schlosser-Magnino, pp. 339, 646. Besterman, p. 1. UCBA, I, p. 10. There was a copy in Philadelphia in 1757 12mo, recent marbled sides, calf spine. (xii)+276+(xxxiv)+(xxiv) pp; Le Clerc: engr. t.p. & 30 engr plates. Occas pencil annotations to the text. Nice (Schimmelman, Checklist (1983), no. 1. copy. 4to, recent boards, calf spine, dark red lettering piece. (xxxviii)+375 pp (pagination irregular due to compositor’s errors, but complete) with imprimatur and title in red and black. Old water stain in lower outer blank 3. DU FRESNOY, C[HARLES]. The art of painting, corner; light marginal water stain in the gutter of the last dozen or so leaves. But not bad. with remarks: translated into English, with an original preface, containing a parallel between painting and poetry, by Mr. Dryden. The second edition, corrected and enlarg’d. London: WITH A LECLERC MODEL BOOK Bernard Lintott, 1716 $375.00 BOUND AT THE END Originally published in 1668 as a Latin poem of 549 verses; it was translated in the same year into French prose by Roger 2. DU FRESNOY, C[HARES] A. L’art du peinture... de Piles and published in Paris, 1668. There were several traduit en Francois. Enrichy de remarques, reveu, corrigé, & editions, but this one is uncommon; OCLC locates only two augmenté. Troisieme edition. Paris: Nicholas Langlois, 1684 copies in USA (HEH & Yale). In the preface to the present (BOUND WITH) SEBASTIAN LE CLERC, Figures English edition, John Dryden develops the theme of Ut d’Academie pour apprendre a desiner... Paris: N. Langlois, n.d. pictura poesis, writing from his own point of view as a poet and [ca 1684] $850.00 playwright on the parallels of painting and poetry. This A classic work in the literature of art history. Originally edition also contains “A short account of the most eminent published in 1668 as a poem in Latin (De Arte Graphica) of painters, both ancient and modern, by R. G. Esq.” - i.e. 549 verses; it was translated in the same year into French [Richard Graham]. Collins & Land, Early books on art, no. 37 prose by Roger de Piles and published in Paris in 1668. In (this edition). This copy is in a utilitarian but serviceable 19th that French translation as well as in the second edition of century cloth binding; bound at the rear is another art 1673 and the present [third] edition the French text is set so handbook: J. S. Templeton, The guide to oil painting. Ninth it faces the Latin original on the facing page. “Piles’s transla- edition, London: G. Rowney, 1849. tion was not a literal one. As he writes in the preface, his close 2 vols in one. 8vo, 19th century cloth, black leather lettering piece. friendship with the author allowed him to work freely with (xvi)+lxviii+(iv)+397+(vii);viii+67+(iv)+12 pp. with engr frontisp. a knowledge of Du Fresnoy’s intentions, making corrections T.p. in red and black. as he wished. Although Piles’s work was challenged because [ 4 ] CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS 4. DU FRESNOY, [CHARLES] ALPHONSE. L’ecole in his The economics of taste (NY, 1963) gives three pages on d’Uranie ou l’art de la peinture. Traduit du Latin d’Alph. du early art sales and auctions (pp. 37-40). This work is fairly Fresnoy, et de M. l’Abbé de Marsy. Avec des remarques. Edition widely held in libraries (OCLC locates 10 copies in America) revue et corrigée par le sieur M. D. Q. Paris: P. G. LeMercier, but there are no copies in the book auction records and the 1753 $400.00 book is rare in commerce. A classic work in the literature of art history. Originally 12mo, orig. marbled boards, calf spine & corners, red edges. (xiii)+228 pp. published in 1668 as a Latin poem of 549 verses; it was translated in the same year into French prose by Roger de Piles and published in Paris in 1668. It kept appearing with “A NEW TYPE OF LITERATURE ABOUT ART” regularity well into the 18th century. The present edition was edited by M.D.Q. (Meusnier de Querlon). Barbier I, col 13. 7. PILES, [ROGER DE]. Abregé de la vie des peintres, OCLC locates 1 copy only (U of Leiden) but I know there is avec des réflections sur leurs ouvrages, et un traité du peintre a copy at Yale; I sold it to them. parfait; de la connaissance des desseins, de l’utilité des estampes. 8vo, orig. full mottled calf, gilt spine; front hinge cracked but strong. Seconde edition, revue & corrigée par l’auteur. Paris: Jacques xl+310+(ii) pp. Estienne, 1715 $500.00 Originally published Paris, 1699, this is a text of fundamental importance in late 17th - early 18th century French art 5. FREART, ROLAND. An idea of the perfection of history. “1699 was an important year for Roger de Piles; it painting. Translated by J[ohn] E[velyn]. London: Henry was the date of his reception into the Académie as a conseiller- Herringman, 1668 $650.00 amateur. During the quarter of a century between the pub- First edition in English. Freart’s Idée de la Perfection de la lication of his Dialogue sur le coloris in 1673 and that of the Peinture was first published in France in 1662. André Fontaine Abregé, the French version of that old Italian debate on the (Les doctrines d’Art en France, p. 20) despite his strictures on relative merits of disegno and colorito had raged between the the narrowly classicizing outlook of Freart, concedes that he Poussinistes, representing the academic orthodoxy, and the is the first to have written a work of aesthetics in the true sense Rubenistes, whose spokesman was Roger de Piles. The year of of the word in his native country; its principal idea is that one Piles’ reception signaled an end to the hegemony

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