Author: HOLBEIN Jean - Chrétien de MECHEL ( graveur ) :
Title: Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou Recueil de Gravures d'après les plus beaux ouvrages de ce fameux peintre publié par Chrétien de Mechel graveur et membre de diverses académies. (Complete in 4 parts)
Description: Basle ( Basel ) , chez Guillaume Haas, Typographe , 1780 (1790 - 1794), 4 parts in one volume , in-folio, 40 x 30 cm (title page of first part 38 x 26 cm. Première Partie; Le Triomphe de la mort; 14 pp (title page included) with one engraved tail end + 14 engraved plates ; the first 12 plates containing in all 47 engravings, the last two plates; one engraving each. Deuxième Partie; La Passion de Jésus-Christ; (2)nn pp (title, blank) + engraved title (dated 1784) + 12 engraved plates. Troisième Partie; Costumes d'Hommes et de Femmes Suisses du XVIe Siècle; (2)nn pp (title, blank) + engraved title (dated 1790) + 13 single page sepia toned engraved costume plates + 2 double page sepia toned double plates (chiaroscuro technique). Quatrième Partie; Portraits d'après des peintures à l'huile...; (2)nn pp (title, blank) + 10 engraved plates. Summerized collation; (20) pp + 51 engraved plates of which two plates double page in chiaroscuro technique. Bound in black half leather, marbled boards and endpapers, some of the textpages a bit foxed, the plates with the usual minor stains and soiling mostly marginal; in all a fine/good , very acceptable copy. Rare complete set of the four parts of Holbein's works published by Chrétien de Mechel. The first part contains the famous Dance of Death engravings (see Graesse III 320). .

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