Description: 1760. xxiv, 152 pp., (8vo) 6¼x4. First edition, with engraved frontispiece, five engraved vignettes showing putti reading, drawing etc., eight portrait medallions, seven culs-de-lampe, and two full-page plates, by Watelet after Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, and three culs-de-lampe by Marguerite Lecomte. Publisher: H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour. Period speckled calf, spine gilt with morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing; a few leaves browned, 5 leaves with marginal creasing and short tears, very good or better. Illustrated with engraved vignettes and many head- and tail-pieces, most of which contain portraits of various painters by the author, and one engraved plate. Watelet, a wealthy dilettante, was elected to the Académie française on the strength of this didactic poem. The second half of the work is decorated with his vignettes, for he was a talented etcher. Diderot said that if he had a copy of Watelet's poem he would cut out the illustrations and frame them under glass, and throw the rest in the fire.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Period speckled calf
Place of Publication: Paris
Signed: No
Publisher: H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1760
Language: French
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Claude Henri Watelet
Personalized: No
Region: Europe
Topic: Poetry
Country/Region of Manufacture: France
