78/2557 [Artists' manuals]. Piles, (R.) de. Verhandeling over de schilderkunde. Benevens eene Samenspraak over het zelfde Onderwerp, door Ludovico Dolce, Waarin over de voorstreflykheden dier Konst en de nodige vereischtens van een' Schilder breedvoerig gehandelt wordt. Amst., P. den Hengst and A. Mens Jansz., n.d. (±1770), 2nd Dutch ed., 2 parts in 1 vol., (8),303,(7); (8),102p., engr. frontisp., 2 plates, contemp. gilt hcalf w. orange mor. letterpiece.

- Two leaves in the second part fingersoiled in lower blank corner; occas. sl. foxed/ vaguely waterstained. Covers trifle rubbed. Good/ fine copy.

= Provenance: A. Pitlo (bookplate on upper pastedown) and B. de Poorter (owner's entry on first free endpaper). Dutch translation by Jacobus de Jong of the Cours de Peinture par Principes (Paris, 1708) by the French painter/ engraver and envoy Roger de Piles (1635-1709) and of the Dialogo della pittura (1557) by the Venetian humanist Ludovico Dolce (1508-1568). First published Amst., A. Mens, 1756. Kunst op schrift 699; cf. Arntzen/ Rainwater H114 (1st Dutch ed. 1756). Rare.