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68 3053 Artists' manuals Bosse A 68/3053 [Artists' manuals]. Bosse, A. De la Manière de graver a l'eau forte et au burin. Et de la gravûre en manière noire. Avec la Façon de construire les Presses modernes & d'imprimer en Taille-douce. Paris, C.-A. Jombert, 1745, 3rd ed., XXXII,186,(6)p., engr. frontisp., dedication, 4 vignettes and 19 fold. plates, contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece. - Bookplate and old annots. on upper pastedown; a few lvs. at the beginning waterst. in lower corner. = Cohen/ De Ricci p.177; Bigmore/ Wyman p.72: "(...) a work notable for its completeness for the time of its production, and for its plates, which have been reproduced by most subsequent writers on art". This third edition augmented by the French engraver Cochin.