[Artist's manual. Prize binding] Groot schilderboek, waar in de schilderkonst

in al haar deelen grondig werd onderweezen, ook door redeneeringen en prentverbeeldingen verklaard (...). G. de Lairesse. 2nd expanded ed. Haarlem, J. Marshoorn, 1740. 2 parts in one vol. 2 engraved title vignettes, portrait of the author, 59 (folding) plates. Profusely gilt panelled calf with morocco letterpiece, front board with central gilt decorated medallion "Vernuft en vlyt", back board with similar decoration dated 3 September 1834, red wax seal mounted on upper pastedown, sm. 4to.

Lacks frontispieces and 7 (folding) plates; 2 plates dam. with loss to image (restored); stamp offset on both sides of half title. Binding dam. at upper joint/front board (restored with loss to gilding); upper joint splitting, calf sl. worn. Fine prize binding of the Teekenacademie der Stad Middelburg.