Title: Liber Veritatis, or a Collection of Two Hundred Prints, after the Original Designs of Claude le Lorrain, in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings. To which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print... Author: Lorrain, Claude Place: London Publisher: John Boydell Date: 1777 Description: Vol. I (of 3) only. 12 pp. text + mezzotint frontispiece portrait & 97 (of 100) mezzotint plates. (folio) 41.5x27 cm. (16¼x10½"), modern cloth. First Edition. The first volume only - the first two volumes were published in 1777, the third in 1819, each containing 100 plates in addition to the portrait. The present copy lacks plates 37, 83 and 84. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers rubbed, spine gouged near head; occasional light foxing, very good. Item number: 214631
Title: Liber Veritatis, or a Collection of Two Hundred Prints, after the Original Designs of Claude le Lorrain, in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Executed by Richard Earlom in the manner and taste of the drawings. To which is added a descriptive catalogue of each print... Author: Lorrain, Claude Place: London Publisher: John Boydell Date: 1777 Description: Vol. I (of 3) only. 12 pp. text + mezzotint frontispiece portrait & 97 (of 100) mezzotint plates. (folio) 41.5x27 cm. (16¼x10½"), modern cloth. First Edition. The first volume only - the first two volumes were published in 1777, the third in 1819, each containing 100 plates in addition to the portrait. The present copy lacks plates 37, 83 and 84. Lot Amendments Condition: Covers rubbed, spine gouged near head; occasional light foxing, very good. Item number: 214631
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