might have been in Jefferson’s library rather than the separate editions, were published in 1725, 1773 and finally in quarto
in 1792 at the Strawberry Hill Press as a supplement to Walpole’s
Anecdotes of Painting
.
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Da Vinci on painting.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 131, no. 11, as above.
LEONARDO DA VINCI.
A Treatise of Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci. Translated from the Original
Italian, and adorn’d with a great Number of Cuts. To which is prefix’d, The Author’s Life; done from the Last Edition of the
French.
London: printed for
J. Senex; and
W. Taylor,
mdccxxi
. [1721.]
ND1130 .L6 1721
First Edition of this Translation. 8vo. 112 leaves, engraved frontispiece with portrait, numerous plates, some folded, title printed
in red and black, list of errata (8 lines) at the foot of the last page of text, publishers’ advertisement on 3 pages at the
end.
Halkett and Laing VI, 87.
Lowndes V, 2774.
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, inventor, engineer and philosopher. The
Trattato della pittura was first published from his manuscripts in 1651. The translation into French by Roland Fréard sieur de Chambrai was originally
published in the same year, 1651, and reprinted in 1716, the edition from which this translation into English was made.
John Senex, d. 1740, was chiefly known as a cartographer and engraver, and for a time had a bookseller’s shop at the Globe in Salisbury
Court, London, his address at the time of the publication of this book. The dedication to Sir Thomas Hanmer was signed by
him and he was probably responsible for the engravings with which the book is illustrated.
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Aedes Walpoliana.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 131, no. 20, as above.
WALPOLE,
Horatio, Earl of Orford.
Aedes Walpolianæ: or, A Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk, the Seat of the Right Honourable
Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford. The
Second Edition . . .
London: printed in the Year
mdcclii
. [Printed by
John Hughs, near Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields. 1752.]
4to. 72 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Robert Walpole, engraved portrait of Catherine, Lady Walpole, both by
Vertue after Zincke, 2 folded engraved plans, 2 folded engraved plates of the East and West Frontes by Vertue after Ripley
Arch; half-title for
A Sermon on Painting on sig. N
1, and on P
2 the half-title for
A Journey to Houghton, the Seat of the Right Honourable Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, in the County of Norfolk. A Poem. By
the Reverend Mr. Whaley
. A copy of this edition was not available for collation.
Lowndes V, 2818.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. II, 838.
Hazen,
A Bibliography of Horace Walpole, page 30.
This was one of the books bought by Jefferson from the Rev. Samuel Henley in 1785, and appears on both the lists he made of the books acquired in this purchase.
Horatio Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, 1717-1797, English author. The first edition of the
Aedes Walpolianae was published in 1747, and contains an account of the pictures in the gallery at Houghton Hall. This collection of pictures
eventually became part of the collection of Catherine II of Russia. Walpole was the author of the
Sermon on Painting which forms part of the book.
John Whaley, 1710-1745, English clergyman and friend of Walpole, was the author of
A Journey to Houghton, published in this work for the first time.
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The perfect painter.
16
s.
1815 Catalogue, page 132, no. 5, as above.
The Perfect Painter; or, A Complete History of the Original, Progress, and Improvement of Painting.
London,
1730.
