Lot 96
  • 96

After Claude Gellée, called Le Lorrain 1600-1682

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Description

  • Claude Gellée, called Le Lorrain
  • liber veritatis (see le blanc 105-405)
  • Overall size each 433 by 285mm; 17 by 11 1/4 in
Two volumes, 1777, comprising mezzotint portrait, two title-pages, dedication, text, lists of plates and 190 etchings with aquatint printed in sepia, by Richard Earlom, fine impressions, the first edition of 1777, published by John Boydell, London, on paper with various watermarks, with margins, occasional paper losses in lower margins associated with mould-staining (well outside platemark), bound in leather-covered boards with gilt titles on spines (split, scuffed and worn) (2)