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First edition of the rarest of all suites of engravings of Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot (1727-1801).<\/span><\/p>\n The series presents practical solutions to various problems of figure drawing and bas-relief perspective. The Frenchman Paul Petitot had been appointed architect to the Duke of Parma in 1760.<\/p>\n According to the preface the treatise had been written and designed by Petitot for a painter friend, and is here edited by the engraver Jacques Gaultier, who got hold of the manuscript. \u201cJe vous pr\u00e9sent un ouvrage que monsieur Petitot architecte, de S.A.R. l\u2019infant D. Philippe \u00e9crivit pour un peintre de ses amis, & dont le manuscrit m\u2019est tomb\u00e9 entre les mains”.<\/p>\n The book is richly produced, with the text in French and Italian printed in two facing columns and withing double printed borders.<\/p>\n A very fine copy, printed on strong paper.<\/p>\n Provenance : M. Favia del Core – Thomas Vroom (book-plates).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Folio (339 x 237 mm) 5 un.l., 20 pp., 9 engraved plates. Contemporary Italian grey boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":73001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[550],"product_tag":[1200,1201,1199,1450,1204],"class_list":{"0":"post-73006","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-science","7":"product_tag-architecture-2","8":"product_tag-drawing","9":"product_tag-fine-arts","10":"product_tag-first-edition","11":"product_tag-perspective-2","12":"pa_auteur-petitot-ennemond-alexandre-2","13":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","15":"first","16":"instock","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Ennemond Alexandre PETITOT","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Parme, fr\u00e8res Faure, 1758","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n