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[BARROW, JOHN.] Dictionarium polygraphicum: or, the whole body of arts regularly digested. Containing, I. The arts of designing, drawing, painting… II. Carving, cutting in wood, stone… III. A brief historical account of the most considerable painters, sculptors… X.
London, printed for C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1735. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, engraved frontispiece, 2 leaves of adverts, and 54 [i.e. 55] folding copperplates (several with some minor offsetting of the text); extremities rubbed, but a nice, clean copy in full contemporary calf, neatly rebacked to match, gilt lettering direct on spine. Barrow was a compiler of a number of similar works during the mid- 18th century, including Navigatio Britannica, or a Complete System of Navigation in all its branches (1750); A New Universal Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences (1753), and, A Collection of Authentic, Useful and Entertaining Voyages (1756). This encyclopaedia of art is the first of its kind in English. A second edition was called for in 1758. Alston III, 549.
Offered for US$ 2500.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 29150