Cornelis Ploos Van Amstel and Christian Josi

Collection d'imitations de dessins d'après les principaux mâitres Hollandais et Flamands. London, Mannheim, The Hague and Amsterdam: C. Josi, Van Clef, Artaria and Fontaine, 1821-[1828]

FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies, folio (510 x 385mm.), portrait, dedication leaf, list of subscribers, 105 mounted plates on 101 sheets in mezzotint, aquatint, roulette work and other techniques, printed in colour, grey or sepia, with occasional touches of hand-colour, by Ploos van Amstel, Josi and others after Rembrandt, van Ostade, Rubens, Goltzius, van Dyck and others, nineteenth-century red half morocco gilt, edges gilt, some spotting, one or two leaves creased

“One of the most important collections of 𝓡en🅺gravings ever published… [and] one of the most important productions in the history of illustration that has ever appeared” (Abbey).

LITERATURE:

Abbey, Life 211; Hardie, p. 57; Hind, p. 302; 🌱Landwehr, p. 11

PROVENANCE:

Sir Titus Salt, Bart (1803-1876), founder of Saltaire mod🐻el village and mill, engraved ar♎morial bookplate