La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois
Subtitle: avec des portraits gravés en taille-douche, une indication de leurs principaux ouvrages, & des réflexions sur leurs différentes manieres
By: par M. J.B. Descamps ...
Contributors: Ficquet, Etienne, 1719-1794
Publisher: Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert ...
Published: 1753
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Painters; Portraits; Artists
Notes: Apparently first edition. Cf. Brunet II, column 608.

Printer's statement (Rouen : A. Viret) and privilege at end of v. 1 dated 1752.

Publisher varies: v. 3-4: Desaint & Saillant, rue de S. Jean de Beauvais; Pissot, Quai de Conty; Durand, rue de Foin.

Title pages in black and red.

Some portraits engraved by Etienne Ficquet, marked in the plate.

Pagination of the text of the 4 v.: 437, 480, 402, 302 p.  Printing errors in pagination throughout.

Includes indexes at end of each vol. and for each vol. in v. 4.  Includes errata.

In Library's copies 1, 3-4: pagination of v. 2 jumps from 446 to 457 (text unaffected) for a total of 480 p.  Library's copy 2's last numbered p. is 472, lacking the errata.

In Library's copy 3: pagination of v. 1, p. 81-96 in disarray, 81, 86, 87, 84, 85, 82, 83, 88, 89, 94, 95, 92, 93, 90, 91, 96.

In Library's copy 4: v. 1, 429 p., lacks pagination of index; its v. 4 dated 1764.