DUBREUIL, Jean.

La perspective practique.- Diverses methodes universelles et nouvelles, en tout ou en partie por faire des perspectives.

      The practical manual on perspective Paris, Melchior Tavernier, 1642. 4to. Later overlapping vellum with brown leather ties. Engraving on title, added engraved title, 150 full-page engravings concerning perspective in the first part, 10 full-page engravings concerning perspective in the second part, engraved head- and endpieces, engraved initials. (24), 150, 10; 25 pp. First edition of this practical manual on perspective used a.o. by painters, engravers and architects. The added engraved title page depicts, under a cartouche at the top, an artist seated before an easel with Minerva standing at his side guiding his brush, and a cherub at his feet with an open book showing the upper part of plate 58, which the artist is copying. This work was very popular in England where two different translations were made. Although the title page is dated 1642, this work had probably appeared by the end of 1641, since by January 1642 Paris was covered with pamphlets accusing the author of plagiarism and misrepresentation. Fine copy.- (Small stain on 3 lvs). Cicognara 823; Brunet IV, 523; Berlin Kat., 4714; Fowler 108; Nicholas Savage (ed.), Early printed books, 1478-1840, Catalogue of the British Architectural Library Early Imprints Collection I, 921.