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A New Drawing Book of Modes. By Mons. B. Picart
by Picart, Bernard
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About This Item
London: Printed for Richard Ware at the Bible & Sun in Amen Corner Warwick-Lane, 1732. 8vo. 205 x 140 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches]. Engraved title-page and 12 engraved plates. Bound in later decorated paper boards. With a typed paper label identifying this copy as "Nevinson Loan 1979 No. 18," on the front pastedown; pencil ownership inscription of costume historian J. L. Nevison dated 1959 on front free endpaper, Penciled numbers and occasional smudges to margins of the plates.
First edition of this drawing manual offering designs of hairstyles, costumes, and attitudes by the noted French artists and engraver, Bernard Picart. The title of the work is engraved within a rococo style shell and floral vignette and although unsigned is no doubt a design used by Picart in many of his works. The twelve plates offer the art student Picart's sense of how to draw the hands, heads, hair, and wardrobes of fashionable people in the first part of the 18th century. The plates are both stylish and suggestive for composition as well as contours and lines.
John Lea Nevinson was the founder of the British Costume Society and a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A penciled note in his hand appears on the rear flyleaf and reads, " A later edition of this series, partly signed (and reengraved?) by B. Cole is numbered outside the ruled lines of each plate. Numbers added in pencil." The four signed plates in the series are signed by George Bickham and George Bickham Jr. and dated 1732. A very scarce title in near fine condition.
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- De Simone Company, Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000
- Title
- A New Drawing Book of Modes. By Mons. B. Picart
- Author
- Picart, Bernard
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Publisher
- Printed for Richard Ware at the Bible & Sun in Amen Corner Warwick-Lane
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1732
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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