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Title

  • The excellency of the pen and pencil : exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and to preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and are here inserted for examples to the learner to practice by : a work very useful for all gentlemen, and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others.

Other Title

  • Pen and pencil

Names

  • Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
  • Newman, Dorman, bookseller.
  • Beaufoy, Henry Benjamin Hanbury, 1786-1851, former owner.
  • Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
  • Thorold, John Hayford, Sir, 1773-1831, former owner.
  • Storr, R. (Roger), active 1820-1842, binder.
  • Syston Park Library (Lincolnshire, England), former owner.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for Dorman Newman, at the Kings-Arms in the Poultrey, M DC LXXXVIII [1688].

Headings

  • -  Drawing--Study and teaching--Early works to 1800
  • -  Drawing--Early works to 1800
  • -  Art--Technique--Early works to 1800
  • -  Great Britain--England--London

Notes

  • -  Signatures: A⁸ ²A⁸ B-H⁸.
  • -  Frontispiece illustration has imprint: London Printed for Rich. Jones & Dorman Newman and are to be sold at their shops at the Golden Lyon and Chrurgions Armes in Little Brittaine.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1538
  • -  National Union Catalog (NUC pre-1956) NE 0218254 (Vol. 164, p. 484)
  • -  English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) R11233
  • -  A digital reproduction of the copy of this title found at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus) is available from Early English Books Online (EEBO).
  • -  A digital reproduction of the copy of this title found at the Getty Research Institute is available from Hathi-Trust Digital Library.
  • -  LC copy has engraved armorial bookplate of Syston Park with additional monogram bookplate "JHT" [Sir John Hayford Thorold] on front pastedown and bookplate of Howard C. Levis on front decorated free endpaper. Has binder's ticket mounted on back paste-down: "Bound by R. Storr, Grantham." Rosenwald 1538a
  • -  LC copies marked: NC705.E9 1688 Copy 1 and NC705.E9 1688 Copy 2. Shelved in RBSCD Rosenwald Collection under Rosenwald 1538a and Rosenwald 1538b
  • -  LAC scc 2019-09-17 no edits (2 cards)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-03-03 no edits (1 card)

Medium

  • [16], 48, 45-123, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. (copper engravings) ; 17 cm. (8vo)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • NC705 .E9 1688
  • NC705 .E9 1688 Copy 2 Has bookplates of Henry B.H. Beaufoy, F.R.S. and Howard C. Levis on front paste-down. Imperfect: plates wanting, supplied in facsimile. Front and back boards detached. Rosenwald 1538b

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 49039025

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Chicago citation style:

Dürer, Albrecht, Dorman Newman, Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, Howard Coppuck Levis, John Hayford Thorold, R Storr, Former Owner Syston Park Library, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. The excellency of the pen and pencil: exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures: also the way to cleanse any old painting, and to preserve the colours: collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and are here inserted for examples to the learner to practice by: a work very useful for all gentlemen, and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others. [London: Printed for Dorman Newman, at the Kings-Arms in the Poultrey, M DC LXXXVIII, 1688] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/49039025/.

APA citation style:

Dürer, A., Newman, D., Beaufoy, H. B. H., Levis, H. C., Thorold, J. H., Storr, R. [...] Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1688) The excellency of the pen and pencil: exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures: also the way to cleanse any old painting, and to preserve the colours: collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and are here inserted for examples to the learner to practice by: a work very useful for all gentlemen, and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others. [London: Printed for Dorman Newman, at the Kings-Arms in the Poultrey, M DC LXXXVIII] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/49039025/.

MLA citation style:

Dürer, Albrecht, et al. The excellency of the pen and pencil: exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures: also the way to cleanse any old painting, and to preserve the colours: collected from the writings of the ablest masters both ancient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others ; furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and are here inserted for examples to the learner to practice by: a work very useful for all gentlemen, and other ingenious spirits, either artificers or others. [London: Printed for Dorman Newman, at the Kings-Arms in the Poultrey, M DC LXXXVIII, 1688] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/49039025/>.