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A Treatise of painting... translated from the original Italian, and adorn'd with a great number of cuts. To which is prefix'd, the author's life; done from the last edition of the French. London: for J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1721

Condition Note: 8vo (195 x 121mm.), [16], 189, [19]pp., title printed in red and black, illustration : engraved frontispiece and 35 plates, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, binding : eighteenth-century mottled calf

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first edition in english. The Trattato was first published in Paris in 1651, with the life of Leonardo by Raphael Du Fresne.