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two red books with gold bindings on them sitting side by sidea close up of an open book on a tablean open book with a picture of a train on the coveran open book with a drawing of a man sitting on a benchan open book with a picture of a man riding a horse in a wooded areaan open book with a drawing of trees on itan open book with a drawing of a landscape on itthree red books are lined up in a row on a white surfacean old book with a red cover sitting on top of a tableportrait of a man in a black coat and white shirta close up of a book with a title on itan open book with a list of advertisements on itan old drawing of a man with a horse in front of a buildingan old picture of a group of people standing on a beach next to a body of wateran old drawing of a group of men riding horses in a wooded areaa picture of a painting of people on a beacha picture of a painting of a boat on the wateran old drawing of a boat in the water with people on ita picture of a picture of a landscape with animals in itan old picture of a painting of a man and a woman in a wooded areaan old picture of a group of people standing on a dockan old picture of a painting of a city with people on the streeta picture of a picture of a horse drawn carriagea picture of a painting of a group of people riding horsesan old picture of a group of people in a wooded areaan old picture of a group of people standing on a docka picture of a picture of a landscape with animals in ita picture of a picture of a landscape with a horse drawn carriagea drawing of a group of people on the beacha picture of a painting of a group of people in the woodsan old picture of a ship in the water with people on itan old drawing of a group of people riding horses in a fieldan old drawing of a man and a woman in front of a boatan old drawing of a boat on a river with people on itan old engraving of a landscape with a man and animalsthe title of a collection of prints, or original designs by claude le loraindrawing of a view of a village with a flock of sheep in the foreground and a flock of birds flying overheaddrawing of a river scene with cattle and a castle in the backgrounddrawing of a landscape with people and animals in the foreground and a river in the foregroundan image of a drawing of a landscape with a castle in the backgrounda picture of a picture of a landscape with a man and a horsedrawing of a landscape with trees and a river in the foregrounddrawing of a landscape with cattle and a castle in the backgroundan old drawing of a group of people in a wooded areadrawing of a landscape with trees and a man on a horse drawn carriagean old print of a landscape with horses and people in the foregroundan old drawing of a landscape with people and a boat in the watera picture of a picture of a landscape with people and animalsthe title of a collection of prints from the original designs of claude le lorraa black and white photo of a man with a long hair
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232 - LE LORRAIN (Claude). *Liber veritatis*; or a Collection of P…
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LE LORRAIN (Claude). *Liber veritatis*; or a Collection of Prints, after the original Designs; in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. London, Boydell and Co, W. Bulmer and Co, n.d. [c. 1820]. 3 folio volumes, in red half-maroquin with corners edged with a double gilt line, richly decorated spine, black title labels and tan volume numbers, gilt edges (mid-19th-century English binding). Second edition of this superb collection of 300 landscape plates engraved by Richard Earlom in a wash-like style and printed in bistre after drawings by the painter Claude Gellée, known as Le Lorrain (1600–1682). In addition, there are three portraits (of the artist Le Lorrain, the engraver Richard Earlom, and the publisher John Boydell) engraved by Josiah Boydell, Lipton and B. Smith. The work, originally published between 1777 and 1817, may be regarded as the first catalogue raisonné of the work of one of the great masters of classical landscape painting. (Brunet, vol. III, col. 1169; Cohen, col. 242.) A magnificent copy, in a lovely English binding with a richly decorated spine. In Volume II, a handwritten note on an endpaper: ‘I ask Madame Laigniel to keep these three volumes at her home in case of a claim by the Crown Prince of England for fifty million, that is to say, one hundred and fifty million.’ From her godmother Fanny Driou, formerly an embroidery merchant, to Phanie Diderot, in Paris, 7 rue d’Uzès. On behalf of Monsieur Vivier, Baron des Landes; and a note at the top: ‘or against billions if one refuses (!?)’. An amusing handwritten note in the same hand concerning the appearance of the engraver and the English publisher beneath the corresponding portraits. Small foxing spots in the margins of a few plates; water stain in the margin of the artist’s portrait; and a small, faint water stain on the edges of plates nos. 167, 196, 197, 198 and 200 in Volume II. Slight scuffing to the binding Expert: Mr Dominique Courvoisier
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