WATIN, Jean Felix. - L'Art du peintre, doreur, vernisseur, ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux amateurs qui veulent entreprendre de peindre, dorer & vernir toutes fortes de sujets et batimens, meubles, bijoux, equipages, &c. in-8o de plus de 400 pages en trois parties. Quatrieme édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée.Paris, [printed by l'imprimerie de la Veuve Herissant] for the author, 1785. 8vo. With some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Contemporary marbled calf.

XXXII, 380, [3], [1 blank] pp.Fourth enlarged and revised edition of a popular practical treatise on painting, varnishing and gilding of furniture, and much more by the French painter and craftsman Jean Felix Watin (1728-?). He was also a merchant trading in all kinds of materials necessary for the arts and crafts he described in the present work. The first part deals with the art of painting all kinds of objects (pp. 1-146), the second part is on the art of gilding (pp. 147-194), and the third part is on varnish and varnishing, including Japanese and Chinese lacquer (pp.195-357). A general index is included at the end of the work.The binding shows some slight signs of wear, mainly around the edges and corners of the boards and the ends of the spine, the back hinge is slightly weakened (some loss of material), internally occasionally very slightly foxed. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cat. Bibliotheek Rijksmuseum I p. 200 (ed. 1793); Conlon 72: 1314; WorldCat 77911638, 886305271, 886965514 (10 copies).

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