Sanderson (William). Graphice· Or, The use of the pen and pensil, 1st edition, 1658

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Sanderson (William). Graphice· Or, The use of the pen and pensil, 1st edition, 1658 Sanderson (William). Graphice· Or, The use of the pen and pensil, in designing, drawing, and painting; with an exact discourse of each of them. As also concerning miniature or limning, in water-colours: the names, natures, and properties of colours: the ordering, preparing washing, and using them, for pictures of life, landskip, and history. As also of croyons, or dry-colours, by pastills or powders; the way of making them, and working with them: with rare receipts and observations, of the best masters of this art. In two parts with some cuts and prints, proper to each section. By William Sanderson, Esq;, 1st edition, London: printed for Robert Crofts, 1658, two parts in one, three engraved portraits by William Faithorne of William Sanderson (frontispiece to first title page, shaved at margin), Mary Ruthven, wife of Antony van Dyck (frontispiece to second title page), and Charles I (bound before page 1, shaved at margin), two different printed title pages, several wood-engraved initials and headpieces, some light soiling, small closed tears to a couple of leaves, Selbourne Library ink stamp to verso of first title page, ownership inscription to first title page (‘H. Watkinson: pret: 3s’), handwritten inscription to verso of front endpaper (torn with loss), hinges cracked, contemporary calf with 19th-century morocco reback, gilt title to spine, rubbed with some wear at extremities, small folio (sheet size 26 x 17.5 cm) QTY: (1) NOTE: Provenance: Henry Watkinson (circa 1628-1712), Chancellor of York; Hugh Selbourne (1906-1973), general practitioner, consultant physician and important book collector. Wing S648. ESTC R208648 and R226145. The two copies listed by ESTC seem to differ only for the title ('Graphice. The use of the pen and pensil. Or, the most excellent art of painting: in two parts' in R208648) and the number of plates (2 in R226145 and 3 in R208648). This copy has both title pages and 3 plates. A complete copy with all the three portraits by William Faithorne, which are often missing. An important early treatise divided into two parts. Part I is entitled ‘The Use of the Pen and Pensil; in the most Excellent Art of Painting’ and covers oil painting, while part II covers ‘The Use of the Pensil: in the most Excellent Art of Limning, in Water-Colours’.