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COQUELEY DE CHAUSSEPIERRE, Charles-Georges (1676-1754)]. Le Roué vertueux orné de figures. Seconde edition . Lauzanne [Paris], 1770.
COQUELEY DE CHAUSSEPIERRE, Charles-Georges (1676-1754)]. Le Roué vertueux orné de figures. Seconde edition . Lauzanne [Paris], 1770. 8 o (221 x 138 mm). Allegorical aquatint vignette on title-page of first work, frontispiece and 4 aquatint plates by JEAN-BAPTISTE LE PRINCE Contemporary polished calf gilt (short split to upper front joint, otherwise fine). Provenance : Hans Fuerstenberg (bookplate), sold to: Otto Schäfer; acquired from Ars Libri, 1996. Second edition, published in the same year as the first edition, and with plates all in the first state. THE FIRST BOOK ILLUSTRATED IN AQUATINT WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY LE PRINCE for plate at p. 19 loosely inserted. The drawing is on buff laid paper, the image size, within a lightly ruled pencil border matches that of the print (145 x 92 mm), and the sheet size measures 186 x 115mm. On the verso of the drawing is a graphite sketch by Le Prince, an early study for the third aquatint in the book. The French painter and printmaker Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734-1781) first studied painting techniques in his native Metz before travelling to Paris around 1750 where he studied under François Boucher (1703-1770). Le Prince's early paintings are comparable to his master's rococo techniques in both theme and style. He is often credited as the inventor of the aquatint, which for the first time made possible the satisfactory reproduction of wash drawing, but it is now believed that others--namely Saint-Non and Jean-Charles Delafosse--were simultaneously working towards the technique. Cioranescu 2133; Cohen-de Ricci 253-254. [ Bound with :] Lettre d'un jeune métaphysicien à une jeune dame qui a ses raisons pour avoir de l'esprit sur Le Roué vertueux et consorts . Londres [Paris], 1770. 8 o (208 x 134 mm), uncut.