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Lot 292
Sale 5792 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 30, 2020
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[Early Printing] Piles, Roger de The Art of Painting, and the Lives of the Painters...To which is added An Essay towards an English-School, With the Lives and Characters of above 100 Painters
London: for J. Nut, 1706. First edition in English. 8vo (signed in eights, but with horizontal chain lines). [16], 1-480, [8] pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary blind paneled calf, morocco spine label, rubbed and worn, joints cracked; some pencil lining to text, top fore-edge corner of front free endpaper torn away, top fore-edge corner of front blank darkened, early owner's signature and old ink scrawl on top half of title-page. Mid 19th century gift inscription on front free endpaper recto. ESTC 10568.