A descriptive catalogue of a general collection of ancient and modern engraved gems, cameos as well as intaglios, taken from the most celebrated cabinets in Europe; and cast in coloured pastes, white enamel, and sulphur, / Catalogue raisonné d'une collection generale, de pierres gravées antiques et modernes, tant en creux que camées, tirées des cabinets les plus celébres du l'Europe. Moulées en pâtes de couleurs a l'imitation des pierres, emaux blancs, et soufres, par Jacques Tassie, sculpteur. Mis en ordre et le texte rédigé par R. E. Raspe. Orné de planches gravées. Au quel on ajouté un discours preliminaire sur les differents usages de cette collection, sur l'origine de l'art de graver les pierres dures, et le progrès de l'invention des pâtes ... .
Tassie, James,1735-1799.
Raspe, Rudolf Erich,1737-1794.
London: : Printed for and sold by James Tassie, no. 20, Leicester-Fields; and J. Murray, bookseller, no. 32, Fleet-Street. C. Buckton, printer, Great Pulteney Street.,
M, DCC, XCI. [1791]
With a final errata leaf.
With three supplements, each with separate pagination and register: 'Liste des cabinets & noms de possesseurs', 'Liste des graveurs anciens & modernes', and 'A reference from the numbers of the old catalogue to the new'.
The Proposals for printing a descriptive catalogue of a collection of pastes was issued in 1788.
Parallel English and French titlepages and texts.
Titlepages in red and black.
Directions to the binder on verso of final leaf of the subscriber's list.
With a list of subscribers in volume 1.
Slip explaining asterisk marks pasted at foot of English title page.
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