77/2133 [Artists' manuals]. Ralph, B. The School of Raphael; or, the student's Guide to Expression in Historical Painting. London, J. Boydell, 1782, 21[=25],(1)textp., 103 engr. plates (of 104) (incl. 1 engr. div. title), contemp. giltlettered hcalf, folio.

- Plates sl. foxed almost throughout (a few sl. worse); lacks the outline plate to plate no. 33. Frontcover loose; covers worn.

= With 2 loosely inserted academic drawings (of one only the lower half). The 2nd edition of this artist's manual, of which the principal design is "to encourage the study of the most profound part of painting, the characteristics of the passions; in order to which, the sacred histories, represented in the inimitable Cartons of Raphael, have been considered separately, and the principal characters in each described and referred to in the several heads in the work (...)" (introduction).