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SANDERSON (WILLIAM)
Graphice. Or, the Use of Pen and Pensill, in Designing, Drawing, and Painting... as also, Concerning Miniature or Limning, in Water-colours, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, Robert Crofts, 1658

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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SANDERSON (WILLIAM)

Graphice. Or, the Use of Pen and Pensill, in Designing, Drawing, and Painting... as also, Concerning Miniature or Limning, in Water-colours, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, 3 engraved portraits (the author, Charles I, and Mary Ruthven, wife of Antony van Dyck, the first 2 mentioned shaved at fore-margin), contemporary calf, rebacked [Wing S648], folio (261 x 177mm.), Robert Crofts, 1658

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SCARCE COMPLETE COPY, with all three portraits by William Faithorne present, of an important early treatise on painting and limning.

Provenance: H. Watkinson, early inscription (with price 3s.) on title.

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