LA FIDELLE Ouverture de l’art De Serrurier, ou lon void Les principaulx preceptes. Desseings et figures touchant Les experiences et operations Manuelles dudit Art. Ensemble un petit traicté De diverse

by JOUSSE, Mathurin.

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First edition

Folio [300 x 200 mm] of (4) ll. including the frontispiece and a large plate with ornaments, 152 pp., 65 numbered figures in the text. Bound in limp vellum, remains of ties on the covers. Contemporary binding. First edition of the utmost rarity in contemporary binding of one of the main illustrated books at the source of the Baroque. References: Brunet, III, 581; Pasquier et Dauphin, Imprimeurs et libraires de l'Anjou, p. 316; Besterman, Old Art Books, 50; Guilmard, Les Maîtres ornemanistes, Paris, 1881 pp. 37-61, n° 26, mentions the work under the apparently mistaken date of 1625 -- Ornamentstichsammlung Berlin 1333; Picot, Catalogue Rothschild, 267; R. A. Weigert, Inventaire du Fonds Français. Graveurs du xviiè, V, pp. 615-617, n° 1 ("Mathurin Jousse's works remain of an exceptional interest for … the Decorative arts"); P. Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration, pl. 26 ; F. Le Boeuf, "Mathurin Jousse, locksmith master in La Flèche and a theorician in architecture (towards 1575-1645)", In situ, 1, 2001, and " La Bibliothèque de Mathurin Jousse une tentative de reconstitution ", In situ, 1, 2001 ; E.-C. Pecquet, " Mathurin Jousse, architecte et ingénieur de la ville de La Flèche au XVIIe siècle ", Cahiers Fléchois, 6, 1984, p. 28-41. A major work for the History of arts in the West. This is the first important treatise exclusively dedicated to the art of the blacksmith and locksmith, printed on G. Griveau's presses, printer in La Flèche, a small town of Sarthe. "Very few technical

• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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