The complete drawing-book; containing many curious specimens, under the following heads : 1. Select parts of the human body. ... 4. Landscapes, ... The whole neatly engraved on one hundred octavo copper-plates, from Le Clerc, ... Callot and others ... To which are annexed, proper instructions to youth, ...
Le Clerc, Sébastien,1637-1714.
London : printed for Robert Sayer,
1786[i.e.1794]
Plate 1 is an engraved titlepage : 'Principles of design, by Le Clerc. Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle', London.
Plates 2-55 are printed 2 to a leaf.
Probably a re-issue.
The Le Clerc drawings are taken from his 'Divers desseins de figures', published in Paris in 1679.
With a half-title.
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