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Early description of colour printing, based on the experiments of the author

BYLAERT, Joannis Jacobus.
Nieuwe manier om plaet-tekeningen in 't koper te brengen, van een, twee of meer couleuren, soo datse de natuur van tekeningen behouden, al schoon dezelve op eene ordinaire plaet-perse gedrukt worden. - Nouvelle maniere de graver en cuivre des estampes coloriées; de façon que, quoiqu'imprimées dans une presse ordinaire, elles conservent l'air & le caractère du dessein. Traduit du Hollandais, par L.G.F. Kerroux.

With 2 folding engraved plates, numbered A-B.

With 2 folding engraved plates, numbered A-B.

With 2 folding engraved plates, numbered A-B.

With 2 folding engraved plates, numbered A-B.



Leiden, Samuel & Johannes Luchtmans, 1772. 8vo. Contemporary red paper over boards, gilt spine lettered in gold. With 2 folding engraved plates, numbered A-B. 77, (1) pp.

First edition of this rare and early book on colour printing by Johannes Jacobus Bylaert (1734-1809). Bylaert, born in Rotterdam, had settled in Leiden as an engraver and a drawing teacher. He developed in the course of the '60s of the 18th century as one of the pioneers experimenting with 'prenttekeningen' or 'print-drawings', mostly done in crayon, a method for colour-printing. Some dozens of his 'print-drawings'  in crayon still exist today. Bylaert has explained his method in this bilingual French-Dutch book. The French text, printed on the pages facing the Dutch text, was translated by the teacher in languages L.G.F. Kerroux. A German translation appeared a year later in Leipzig as well in Amsterdam, under the title Neue Manier Kupferstiche von verschiedenen Farben zu verfertigen.
Bylaert's very important experiments with printing in more than one colour are to be seen in the context of other experiments, for instance those by the well-known Amsterdam merchant Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726-1798), who from ca. 1760 till 1787 published several of his famous 'facsimiles' of paintings.

Good copy.- (Spine sl. damaged).
Landwehr, Col. plates, p. 12 and 16; Van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden I,  p. 521; Cat. Rijksmuseum II, p.96.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Colour Printing  Engravings 

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