A Treatise of Painting ... Translated from the Original Italian, and Adorn'd with a great Number of Cuts. London: J. Senex, 1721. 8vo (195 x 122 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 35 engraved plates after Nicholas Poussin. Contemporary paneled calf, 5 raised bands on spine, morocco lettering piece. 3 leaves inserted at front bearing a printed Da Vinci biography, clipping from an 1808 auction catalog describing a Da Vinci painting laid down to rear paste-down, manusccript notes on front paste-down. Joints and corners repaired, bookplate and ownership markings on front paste-down and title. Provenance: Thomas Baskerfield (English topographical artist, active 1785-1816, bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, compiled from manuscripts written during his lifetime, but first published in Italian in 1651. Da Vinci exposits his theories regarding anatomical drawing, perpective, and other elements of composition for artists, a text that was very influential in its attempt to define and understand the laws of painting in a scientific framework. The illustrations are based upon drawings by the French painter Nicholas Poussin. Lowndes VII, 2774.
A Treatise of Painting ... Translated from the Original Italian, and Adorn'd with a great Number of Cuts. London: J. Senex, 1721. 8vo (195 x 122 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 35 engraved plates after Nicholas Poussin. Contemporary paneled calf, 5 raised bands on spine, morocco lettering piece. 3 leaves inserted at front bearing a printed Da Vinci biography, clipping from an 1808 auction catalog describing a Da Vinci painting laid down to rear paste-down, manusccript notes on front paste-down. Joints and corners repaired, bookplate and ownership markings on front paste-down and title. Provenance: Thomas Baskerfield (English topographical artist, active 1785-1816, bookplate). FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, compiled from manuscripts written during his lifetime, but first published in Italian in 1651. Da Vinci exposits his theories regarding anatomical drawing, perpective, and other elements of composition for artists, a text that was very influential in its attempt to define and understand the laws of painting in a scientific framework. The illustrations are based upon drawings by the French painter Nicholas Poussin. Lowndes VII, 2774.
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