[FOUNDATIONS OF VIRTUAL REALITY - BEGINNING OF THE PARISIAN 'PERSPECTIVE WAR' - THE MACCLESFIELD COPY] La perspective pratique: nécessaire à tous peintres, graveurs, sculpteurs, architectes, orfèvres,

by [Dubreuil, Jean]

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Paris: L'Anglois, 1647-1651. Quarto (27.8 × 21 cm). Eighteenth-century leather bindings, each with two colored spine labels and gilt ornaments and fillets to spines and boards; 2 blank leaves, [49] pp., 172 [recte 173] numbered leaves and [36] pp. interspersed between the seven parts, [11] pp., 4 blank leaves; 4 blank leaves, [23] pp., 123 numbered leaves and [8] pp. interspersed between the five parts, [13] pp., [Collation of the bound-in supplements see below], 41 blank leaves; 2 blank leaves, [39] pp., 156 [recte 166] numbered leaves and [44] pp. interspersed between the five parts, [14] pp., 8 blank leaves. The three volumes with a total of 462 full-page copperplate engravings (of which 3 are folded and double-paged, one of them a duplicate), 3 engraved title pp., and numerous engraved vignettes and initials. The Macclesfield copy, with the armorial bookplate to all three volumes. The pagination of the leaves and engravings skips back and forth several times (see Millard for a detailed list); with wide margins, noticeably larger than the one recorded by Millard; in the second volume, corrections were made by the printer or binder via pasting over: copper plate 12 and 4 leaves of the plate register; bindings with age-typical signs of use; joints barely noticeably, professionally restored; slightly toned in places; only a few leaves sporadically faintly stained; title pages with blind-stamped owner's stamps; else very good. This art-historically significant and extensive pr

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