GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques (1717-1786). A CONTEMPORARY ALBUM CONTAINING FOUR OF HIS WORKS . Comprising
GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques (1717-1786). A CONTEMPORARY ALBUM CONTAINING FOUR OF HIS WORKS . Comprising: GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques and Joseph Guichard DUVERNEY. Anatomie de la tête, en tableaus imprimés … Paris: Gautier, Duverney and Quillau, 1748. Title printed in red and black. 9 text leaves: avertissement, and 8 explications. 8 full-page color mezzotints, each varnished. (Plate 8 with tiny marginal hole, a few text leaves with light browning or spotting.) Choulant-Frank; p.271, NLM/Blake, p.169; Wellcome II, p.97. FIRST EDITION . GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques. “Hermaphrodite. Disseration au sujet de la fameuse Hermaphrodite…” Paris: Berryer, 9 December 1749. One text leaf. One color mezzotint, varnished. (Imprint on text leaf slightly obscured by mount.) Choulant-Frank p.273; Franklin, Early Colour Printing p.49; Singer 135 (with date of 1754). EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , only two copies have sold at auction in the last 35 years: this copy (see below), and the Edell copy, sold Christie’s New York, 5 October 2007, lot 86. GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques and Joseph Guichard DUVERNEY. Essai d’Anatomie, en Tableaux imprimés, qui representent au naturel tous les muscles De la Face, du col, de la Tête, de la Langue & du Larynx … -- Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, composée de l’essai et de la suite de l’essai d’anatomie, en tableaux imprimés . Paris: Gautier [vol.I]; Gautier, Quillau pere et fils, and Lamesle [vol.II], 1745-46-[48]. 24 text leaves. 20 life-size color mezzotints, each varnished. (Plates 11 and 12 with marginal paper flaws or tears, plate 12 with 1-inch marginal tear just touching plate, plate 20 with 2-inch marginal tear just touching outside of image, a few full-page plates with marginal browning, a few text leaves with browning or spotting.) FIRST EDITION. Together 4 works in one volume, broadsheets (780 x 530mm). All but one text leaf inlaid to form a uniform size, the plates unfolded. 18th-century green vellum. Provenance : sold Christie’s London, 16 November 1988, lot 93. Jacques Christophe Le Blon invented the three-color method of color printing in mezzotint, obtained a royal patent for the process in England from King George I in 1719, and published a small book on the process in 1725. However, Le Blon's attempt to commercialize his process through a company he called The Picture Office failed, and he eventually re-established himself in Paris, obtaining in 1737 a privilege, and in 1739 a twenty-year patent for the use of his color printing process in France. In 1740 Le Blon advertised that he was taking subscriptions for a treatise on anatomy illustrated with 60 plates printed in color. Before he could do much work on this project Le Blon died in 1741, leaving only one anatomical plate, which was completed and published by Jean Robert in 1742. Immediately after Le Blon's death, a printer and engraver who had worked briefly for Le Blon, Jacques-Fabien Gautier (1716-85), who would later add "d'Agoty" to his name, claimed to have enhanced Le Blon's process by adding black (though Le Blon had previously used a black plate on occasion), and obtained the royal privilege for color printing in France for thirty years. However, the heirs of Le Blon objected, and in 1742 the King withdrew Gautier's privilege. In 1742 Gautier purchased the privilege from Le Blon's heirs. Why Le Blon thought the color-printing process was appropriate for anatomy is unclear. Perhaps he sensed that there was a market for a new style of books on human anatomy. Whatever Le Blon's motivation, when Gautier set out to commercialize color printing after Le Blon's death he decided to exploit the market for books on anatomy and natural history. Over the next thirty years Gautier would draw, engrave, and print in color a series of books which were as radically original and dramatic in their size and artistic composition as they were original in their manner of production. Though all of Gautier's books c
GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques (1717-1786). A CONTEMPORARY ALBUM CONTAINING FOUR OF HIS WORKS . Comprising
GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques (1717-1786). A CONTEMPORARY ALBUM CONTAINING FOUR OF HIS WORKS . Comprising: GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques and Joseph Guichard DUVERNEY. Anatomie de la tête, en tableaus imprimés … Paris: Gautier, Duverney and Quillau, 1748. Title printed in red and black. 9 text leaves: avertissement, and 8 explications. 8 full-page color mezzotints, each varnished. (Plate 8 with tiny marginal hole, a few text leaves with light browning or spotting.) Choulant-Frank; p.271, NLM/Blake, p.169; Wellcome II, p.97. FIRST EDITION . GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques. “Hermaphrodite. Disseration au sujet de la fameuse Hermaphrodite…” Paris: Berryer, 9 December 1749. One text leaf. One color mezzotint, varnished. (Imprint on text leaf slightly obscured by mount.) Choulant-Frank p.273; Franklin, Early Colour Printing p.49; Singer 135 (with date of 1754). EXTREMELY RARE: according to American Book Prices Current , only two copies have sold at auction in the last 35 years: this copy (see below), and the Edell copy, sold Christie’s New York, 5 October 2007, lot 86. GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques and Joseph Guichard DUVERNEY. Essai d’Anatomie, en Tableaux imprimés, qui representent au naturel tous les muscles De la Face, du col, de la Tête, de la Langue & du Larynx … -- Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, composée de l’essai et de la suite de l’essai d’anatomie, en tableaux imprimés . Paris: Gautier [vol.I]; Gautier, Quillau pere et fils, and Lamesle [vol.II], 1745-46-[48]. 24 text leaves. 20 life-size color mezzotints, each varnished. (Plates 11 and 12 with marginal paper flaws or tears, plate 12 with 1-inch marginal tear just touching plate, plate 20 with 2-inch marginal tear just touching outside of image, a few full-page plates with marginal browning, a few text leaves with browning or spotting.) FIRST EDITION. Together 4 works in one volume, broadsheets (780 x 530mm). All but one text leaf inlaid to form a uniform size, the plates unfolded. 18th-century green vellum. Provenance : sold Christie’s London, 16 November 1988, lot 93. Jacques Christophe Le Blon invented the three-color method of color printing in mezzotint, obtained a royal patent for the process in England from King George I in 1719, and published a small book on the process in 1725. However, Le Blon's attempt to commercialize his process through a company he called The Picture Office failed, and he eventually re-established himself in Paris, obtaining in 1737 a privilege, and in 1739 a twenty-year patent for the use of his color printing process in France. In 1740 Le Blon advertised that he was taking subscriptions for a treatise on anatomy illustrated with 60 plates printed in color. Before he could do much work on this project Le Blon died in 1741, leaving only one anatomical plate, which was completed and published by Jean Robert in 1742. Immediately after Le Blon's death, a printer and engraver who had worked briefly for Le Blon, Jacques-Fabien Gautier (1716-85), who would later add "d'Agoty" to his name, claimed to have enhanced Le Blon's process by adding black (though Le Blon had previously used a black plate on occasion), and obtained the royal privilege for color printing in France for thirty years. However, the heirs of Le Blon objected, and in 1742 the King withdrew Gautier's privilege. In 1742 Gautier purchased the privilege from Le Blon's heirs. Why Le Blon thought the color-printing process was appropriate for anatomy is unclear. Perhaps he sensed that there was a market for a new style of books on human anatomy. Whatever Le Blon's motivation, when Gautier set out to commercialize color printing after Le Blon's death he decided to exploit the market for books on anatomy and natural history. Over the next thirty years Gautier would draw, engrave, and print in color a series of books which were as radically original and dramatic in their size and artistic composition as they were original in their manner of production. Though all of Gautier's books c
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