Traité de la peinture au pastel [...]. Par M. P.R. de C... C. à P. de L.

Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve (printed by Cailleau), 1788

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12mo: 376-[3] pp. (erased prov. mention on upper endpaper).

Mod. calf, flat spine, original endpapers preserved.

First and only (?) edition of this work about the technique, composition, advantages and fixing of dry chalk works. In the preface, the author highlights the need for such a work as a study on this technique seems to have been omitted by the Académie des Sciences and the "Encyclopédie". Index.
Ref. Brunet, Table, 9278. - Conlon 88:2709. - Not in Barbier, Quérard (Supp. litt.).
Prov. Van Duyse (ms. mention).
Joined, same size: Vinci, Leonardo da - Traité de la peinture [...]. Nouvelle édition. Augmentée de la Vie de l'autheur. Paris, P.-F. Giffart, 1716. Engr. front., 18 (of 33) pl. (worm-holes and galleries mainly in the margins, some dampstains on some lvs). Mod. 18th-c. style brown morocco, gilt orn. spine with raised bands. French ed. by R. Trichet Du Fresne.