LORRAIN, CLAUDE [CLAUDE GELEE] Liber Veritatis; Or, a collection of prints after the original designs of Claude Le Lorrain; in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, executed by Richard Earlom ... London: Messrs. Boydell and Co., n.d. (dated 1777 in the preface, but probably a later issue, as the variant title and omission of the date indicates). Two volumes, three-quarters red morocco, marbled sides, spine gilt extra, all edges gilt. 16 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (42 x 27 cm); frontispiece, 18 pp., 100 plates in mezzotint printed in bistre; frontispiece, 10 pp., 100 plates in mezzotint printed in bistre. Externally, minor wear to joints and boards, but a very pretty set, and internally an unusually fresh, clean copy, with the bookplates of Sir William Eden Bart., with a note from Robert Goff giving them as a gift (apparently upon moving his library) in 1848. Claude's Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth) contains masterly renderings by Richard Earlom of Claude's great sketchbook, now in the British Museum. A third volume was issued in 1819, not present here. This set is unusually clean, with very little of the foxing that so commonly defaces the work. Abbey Life 200; Cohen-De Ricci 242. C
LORRAIN, CLAUDE [CLAUDE GELEE] Liber Veritatis; Or, a collection of prints after the original designs of Claude Le Lorrain; in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, executed by Richard Earlom ... London: Messrs. Boydell and Co., n.d. (dated 1777 in the preface, but probably a later issue, as the variant title and omission of the date indicates). Two volumes, three-quarters red morocco, marbled sides, spine gilt extra, all edges gilt. 16 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (42 x 27 cm); frontispiece, 18 pp., 100 plates in mezzotint printed in bistre; frontispiece, 10 pp., 100 plates in mezzotint printed in bistre. Externally, minor wear to joints and boards, but a very pretty set, and internally an unusually fresh, clean copy, with the bookplates of Sir William Eden Bart., with a note from Robert Goff giving them as a gift (apparently upon moving his library) in 1848. Claude's Liber Veritatis (Book of Truth) contains masterly renderings by Richard Earlom of Claude's great sketchbook, now in the British Museum. A third volume was issued in 1819, not present here. This set is unusually clean, with very little of the foxing that so commonly defaces the work. Abbey Life 200; Cohen-De Ricci 242. C
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