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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN. 1716-1785. [Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, composee de l'essai et de la suite de l'essai d'anatomie, en tableaux imprimes.] Paris: Gautier, Quillau father and son, and Lamesle, 1745-1746.
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GAUTIER D'AGOTY, JACQUES FABIEN. 1716-1785.
[Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, composee de l'essai et de la suite de l'essai d'anatomie, en tableaux imprimes.] Paris: Gautier, Quillau father and son, and Lamesle, 1745-1746.
Large folio (760 x 535 mm). Assembled text leaves, 19 (of 20) hand-colored plates, all but one plate laid down to larger leaves. 20th century three-quarter Morocco and beige cloth. Assembled, lacking text leaves, dampstaining (incurred after binding), foxing, some repaired tears.
Gautier was a student of Le Blon, who has first demonstrated the mezzotint color technique in the 1720s. Le Blon had recognized the utility of his process for the production of depth in anatomical illustration, but his one attempt to process mezzotints for publication went unpublished. D'Agoty obtained a thirty-year privilege to Le Blon's process upon his death in 1741, adding a fourth (black) plate as a refinement. Although Choulant writes that "his anatomic illustrations... impress the critical observer with their arrogance and charlatanry and do not recommend themselves to the student of anatomy either for their faithfulness and reliability or for their technique" (Choulant-Frank), they are of great interest from the point of view of book illustration and the history of anatomic illustration. The present work is an assemblage of components from more than one copy, including the title pages of both original volumes of this title, and 19 single-page plates of varying sizes, without text leaves, evidently culled from a variety of other sources. Sold as a collection of plates.
Large folio (760 x 535 mm). Assembled text leaves, 19 (of 20) hand-colored plates, all but one plate laid down to larger leaves. 20th century three-quarter Morocco and beige cloth. Assembled, lacking text leaves, dampstaining (incurred after binding), foxing, some repaired tears.
Gautier was a student of Le Blon, who has first demonstrated the mezzotint color technique in the 1720s. Le Blon had recognized the utility of his process for the production of depth in anatomical illustration, but his one attempt to process mezzotints for publication went unpublished. D'Agoty obtained a thirty-year privilege to Le Blon's process upon his death in 1741, adding a fourth (black) plate as a refinement. Although Choulant writes that "his anatomic illustrations... impress the critical observer with their arrogance and charlatanry and do not recommend themselves to the student of anatomy either for their faithfulness and reliability or for their technique" (Choulant-Frank), they are of great interest from the point of view of book illustration and the history of anatomic illustration. The present work is an assemblage of components from more than one copy, including the title pages of both original volumes of this title, and 19 single-page plates of varying sizes, without text leaves, evidently culled from a variety of other sources. Sold as a collection of plates.
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