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Work Type handbooks and manual

Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1776.

1. The artist's vade-mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:: 1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts