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Leçons de perspective positive

Author: Jacques Androuet Ducerceau (French, about 1515–about 1585)
Illustrated by: Jacques Androuet Ducerceau (French, about 1515–about 1585)
Printer: Mamert Patisson (French, died in 1601 or 1602)
1576
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 60 etchings
Dimensions Overall: 30.2 x 20.2 x 1.9 cm (11 7/8 x 7 15/16 x 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Samuel and Dorothy Glaser
Accession Number1979.647
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Mamert Patisson, 1576

Catalogue Raisonné Brunet I, 281; Berlin 4699; Fowler 26; BN, Inventaire 16th, I, p. 69; Geymuller, p. 299
Description(Paris, Mamert Patisson, 1676 [sic: i.e., 1576]) Quarto; 72 leaves; old gilt-stamped vellum, red leather label (beige cloth box).

Diagrams and renderings of perspectival views. First edition. The misprinted date on the title page has led some cataloguers to call this a second edition exactly 100 years later (the Getty Research Institute catalogue notes differences in setting and printing ornaments). More likely, this is a variant printing with some type differences (Patisson died by 1601 or 1602).
ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Samuel Glaser, by whom given to MFA, December 19, 1979.