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Evelyn (John). Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper, '2nd' edition, London: J. Murray 1769, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved plate, folding mezzotint plate, frontispiece and title-page browned, contemporary sprinkled sheep, joints split, extremities worn, 8vo (17.6 x 11.5 cm), together with: Piles (Roger de), The Art of Painting, and the Lives of the Painters, 1st edition in English, London: J. Nutt, 1706, engraved frontispiece, marginal hole in 2D1, contemporary manuscript slip tipped to front free endpaper containing biographical notices of painters from Da Vinci to Kneller, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 8vo (18.5 x 11.3 cm), Dryden (John, translator), The Art of Painting by C. A. Du Fresnoy, 2nd edition ('corrected, and enlarg'd'), London: for B. L. and sold by William Taylor 1716, engraved frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and somewhat tightly sewn, restoration to extremities, 8vo (17.6 x 10.4 cm), and 9 others, 18th-century treatises on art and painting, French and English, contemporary bindings, some rebacked, 8vo (Qty: 13) Provenance: Patricia Milne Henderson (1935-2018), British art historian, with bookplates. ESTC T134297 (Evelyn, this edition in fact 'a reissue of the second edition of 1755, with a cancel title-page'), T10568 (Piles), N14579 (Dryden); Keynes