Author: FRESNOY Charles Alphonse du - Sir Josuah REYNOLDS - William MASON ( translator ) :
Title: The Art of Painting of Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy. Translated into English Verse by William Mason, M.A., With Annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt., President of the Royal Academy.
Description: .: 13. York, A. Ward, 1783, in-4°, 26.3 x 20.6 cm, xix + 213 + (2) pp, with in the appendix ;Gray's historical table of painters from Cimabue to Poussin. Bound in contemporary mottled calf , with floral fillet on both boards and gilt decorations on spine, marbled endpapers, handwritten ex-libris on title page (James Croome) and pencilled on verso. First edition, fine copy allthough the binding extremities show some wear and there is a faint waterstain in the margin of the last leaves. .

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