Beschrijving
Nurnberg, Johann Daniel Preissler, 1754, 4 volumes in one. Not complete. Folio, bound in contemporary half leather binding, leather spine covered with paper, marbled boards, handwritten notes in ink on page with foreword catalogueing the plates (all were present then), some handwritten notes on other pages, mostly in the margins, some soiling to pages and plates as result of usage in previous centuries.
Contents:
Vol I: titlepage + 6 text pages, plates 1, 9-18 (plates 15 en 16 are damaged to the top right corner), Vol II: (1750, Anderer Theil) complete with titlepage + 6 text pages and 18 plates (two plates smudged, one with small tear on bottom half). Includes a Hercules similar to the Knolleman by Goltzius, Vol III: (1756, dritter un letzter Theil), titlepage + 5 text pages and plates 1-7, 9-18.
Bound with:
‘Gründliche Anleitung, welcher man sich im Nachzeichnen schöner Landschafften oder Prospecten bedienen kan, den Liebhabern der Zeichen-Kunst mitgetheilet und eigenhändig in Kupffer gebracht von Johann Daniel Preissler, Vierdte Auflage’, 1749. Titlepage + 2 text pages, plates 1-4, 6-11, 13-14.
Added:
‘Index-Figurarum aut a suo nomine aut ab externo habitu descriptarum’ listing 50 plates of Roman gods and godessed, of which 17 plates are present: 2-3, 5, 7-9, 11, 13, 18-20, 25-27, 30, 41 and 43.
Added:
4 anatomical engravings on smaller paper (8, 9, 10 and 12).
The book contains three skilled drawings by someone who has made good use of the book: two on loose pages, one on a loose piece of silk. There is a handwritten name on the front endpaper: ‘C. van der Goes’. Could he have made the drawings as well?
It is a beautiful book that takes you back the art students of the past. There is some wear and tear, but with a book that was meant to be used by art students, that only adds to it's charm. The construction is solid, and though both titles are incomplete, beautiful pages have been added. A very exciting book to leaf through.
