Earlom (Richard). Liber Veritatis or a collection of Two Hundred prints after the original designs of Claude Le Lorrain in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire..., 3 volumes, London: John Boydell 1777 - [1819], printed title page and index to volumes 1 & 2, volume 1 with a dedication to the Duke of Devonshire, mezzotint portrait of Claude Le Lorrain, 2 leaves on the 'Life of Claude Lorrain' and an advertisement, volume 3 lacking title and with index in near-contemporary manuscript, 300 (complete) mezzotints on laid paper, printed in sepia and black, 38 of the plates in volume 3 have been trimmed to the plate mark or just outside and tipped on to later wove paper, occasional spotting, volume 3 with later endpapers, bookplate of Joseph Neeld to front pastedowns, all edges gilt, uniform contemporary 'catspaw' calf with gilt decorated spines and boards, very slight wear to extremities, small adhesive label to the upper siding of each volume, folio, volume size 430 x 300 mm (Quantity: 3) Abbey, Life in England, number 200. "This capital work, a landmark in the history of the reproduction of master drawings, is ... an important forerunner of later publications in this section. It contains 300 reproductions of drawings by Claude Lorrain pastoral, mythological, and biblical subjects, and was called Liber Veritatis [Book of Truth] for the purpose of identifying Claude's genuine works from forgeries, or from drawings wrongly attributed to the master. They are all printed in a warm bistre colour to aid the resemblance..., This is the first complete edition with the engravings in the best and final state..., The catalogues in each volume give a comprehensive description of each drawing, indicating also for whom they were executed, which pictures were painted from them, and the ownership at the date of publication of the book—in short, a real catalogue raisonné" (Abbey).
Earlom (Richard). Liber Veritatis or a collection of Two Hundred prints after the original designs of Claude Le Lorrain in the Collection of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire..., 3 volumes, London: John Boydell 1777 - [1819], printed title page and index to volumes 1 & 2, volume 1 with a dedication to the Duke of Devonshire, mezzotint portrait of Claude Le Lorrain, 2 leaves on the 'Life of Claude Lorrain' and an advertisement, volume 3 lacking title and with index in near-contemporary manuscript, 300 (complete) mezzotints on laid paper, printed in sepia and black, 38 of the plates in volume 3 have been trimmed to the plate mark or just outside and tipped on to later wove paper, occasional spotting, volume 3 with later endpapers, bookplate of Joseph Neeld to front pastedowns, all edges gilt, uniform contemporary 'catspaw' calf with gilt decorated spines and boards, very slight wear to extremities, small adhesive label to the upper siding of each volume, folio, volume size 430 x 300 mm (Quantity: 3) Abbey, Life in England, number 200. "This capital work, a landmark in the history of the reproduction of master drawings, is ... an important forerunner of later publications in this section. It contains 300 reproductions of drawings by Claude Lorrain pastoral, mythological, and biblical subjects, and was called Liber Veritatis [Book of Truth] for the purpose of identifying Claude's genuine works from forgeries, or from drawings wrongly attributed to the master. They are all printed in a warm bistre colour to aid the resemblance..., This is the first complete edition with the engravings in the best and final state..., The catalogues in each volume give a comprehensive description of each drawing, indicating also for whom they were executed, which pictures were painted from them, and the ownership at the date of publication of the book—in short, a real catalogue raisonné" (Abbey).
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