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Le manuel des artistes et des amateurs, ou, Dictionnaire historique et mythologique des emblêmes, allégories, énigmes, devises, attributs & symboles, relativement au costûme, aux mœurs, aux usages & aux cérémonies : contenant tous les caractères distinctifs & l'explication de chaque sujèt naturel ou moral, sacré ou profane, historique ou fabuleux, dont on peut faire usage dans la poésie, la peinture, la sculpture, l'architecture, le dessin, l'ornement & la décoration, &c. : ouvrage utile aux poëtes, aux artistes & aux amateurs des beaux arts

by: Petity, Jean Raymond de, 1724?-1780

Publication date: 1770

Topics: Symbolism in art, Art, Mythology, Signs and symbols, Art -- Themes, motives -- Dictionaries, Art -- Dictionaries -- French, Symbolism in art -- Dictionaries -- French, Art -- Themes, motives, MITOLOGIA -- DICCIONARIOS -- FRANCES, LIMERICKS, ARQUITECTURA -- DICCIONARIOS

Publisher: A Paris : Chez J.P. Costard ...

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Volume: v.1

Item Size: 728.7M

Pagination v. 1: cxliv, 546 p. -- v. 2: clij, 562 p. -- v. 3: cxij, 676 p. -- v. 4: [4], 772 p

"De l'Imprimerie de la Veuve Simon & Fils..."--P. 764, v. 4

The emblems comprise an image briefly described in French prose, followed by a Latin motto and explanatory Latin verse. The "enigmes" are riddles in French verse, the answers to which are supplied at end of each vol

Annotated bibliographies of "auteurs mythologues," "auteurs hyérographes" and "auteurs sur la peinture," v. 4, p. 549-764

Binding: mottled goatskin. Spine gilt tooled, title and vol. no. on separate labels. Edges red

4 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)

Published anonymously. By J.R. de Petity. Cf. Quérard

Printer's imprint at end of v. 4: De l'imprimerie de la veuve Simon & fils ..

Vol. 1: cxliv, 546 p.; v. 2: clij, 562 p.; v. 3: cxij, 676 p.; v. 4: [4], 772 p

"Catalogue raisonné des auteurs qu'on a consultés pour la composition de cet ouvrage": v. 4, p. 549-764

Vol. 1: A-E -- v. 2: F-L -- v. 3: M-P -- v. 4: Q-Z

Notes

No Table of contents. Narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text. Some text impossible to capture. Foxing throughout book. Irregular pagination. Misprinted page numbers.