Description: Leonardo da Vinci A Treatise on Painting, first edition in English, London: J. Senex & W. Taylor 1721. Engraved frontispiece, title page printed in red & black, 35 engraved plates, five of which are folding, pp. [xviii], 189, 16pp. index, 3pp. publisher's advertisements. Octavo, worn panelled calf, ffep featuring mounted grisaille watercolour portrait of Leonardo da Vinci captioned as 'a camera sketch from a large & authentic Print', the verso with manuscript notes, a 'Remark, on Pictures at Osmaston'. Contents very well-preserved & bright, a few folded corners and small marks in places, contemporary owner inscriptions and handling marks on title, binding worn with upper board detached The first edition in English of the influential Trattato della pittura, compiled from numerous manuscripts after Leonardo's death
Description: Leonardo da Vinci A Treatise on Painting, first edition in English, London: J. Senex & W. Taylor 1721. Engraved frontispiece, title page printed in red & black, 35 engraved plates, five of which are folding, pp. [xviii], 189, 16pp. index, 3pp. publisher's advertisements. Octavo, worn panelled calf, ffep featuring mounted grisaille watercolour portrait of Leonardo da Vinci captioned as 'a camera sketch from a large & authentic Print', the verso with manuscript notes, a 'Remark, on Pictures at Osmaston'. Contents very well-preserved & bright, a few folded corners and small marks in places, contemporary owner inscriptions and handling marks on title, binding worn with upper board detached The first edition in English of the influential Trattato della pittura, compiled from numerous manuscripts after Leonardo's death
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