A book of dravving, limning, vvashing or colouring of mapps and prints, or, The young-mans time well spent
Subtitle: in which, he hath the ground-work to make him fit for doing any thing by hand, when hee is able to draw well : by the vse of this work, you may draw all parts of a man, leggs, armes, hands and feet, severally, and together ... : moreover you may learn by this tract, to make all sorts of colours, and to grinde and lay them, and to make gold and silver to write with ... : very vsefull for all handicrafts, and ingenuous gentlemen, and youths
Publisher: Printed by James and Joseph Moxon, for Thomas Jenner ...
Published: 1647
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Human figure in art; Early works to 1800; Painting; Technique; Drawing; Study and teaching
Other titles: Young-mans time well spent.
Work titles: Book of drawing, limning, washing or colouring of maps and prints
Notes: Signatures: [A]1 B-K².

The frontispiece port., engraved by Francis Delaram after Hans Rottenhammer, has separate title and imprint: A booke of the art of drawing according to ye order of Albert Durer, Jean Cozijn and other excellent picture-makers ... [London] : Are to be sould by Thomas Geele ...

The frontispiece port. and leaves [2]-[16] contain engravings with letterpress text on the obverse; the ill., engraved by Robert Vaughan, are numbered 1-19, but only 16 of them are present in this edition.

The text of this edition differs from that of editions with title "Albert Durer revised."

Based on Dürer's Vier Bücher von menschlichen Proportion, and Cousin's Vraye science de la pourtraicture. Cf. Hind.

Hind, A.M. Engraving in England, II, 233-234

Wing (2nd ed.) J661B