[Artist's handbooks] Karel van Mander

Het Schilder-Boeck, waerin voor eerst de Leerlustige-Jeught den gront der Edele Vrye Schilderkonst in verscheyden deelen wort voor-gedragen. Daer na in drij deelen t'leven der vermaerde Doorluchtighe Schilders des Ouden ende Nieuwen Tydts. Eyndlyck d'uytlegginghe op den Metamorphoseon Pub Ovidij Nasonis. Alles dienstich ende nut den Schilders, Const-beminders ende Dichters, en alle andere Staten van menschen. Hier is op nieu bygevoecht het leven des auteurs. Amsterdam, J.P. Wachter, 1618 (parts 2-6 C.L. vander Plasse, 1616-1617, part 4 printed by P. van Ravesteyn for Vander Plasse, 1618), 6 parts in one volume with the following paging: (16),22,(2); (4),213,(3); (8),122,(2);(8) p., with engraved general title page and engraved portrait, various woodcut printer's marks, contemporary vellum.

Frontispiece, portrait and binding slightly stained, yet a very good copy of this type of usable book. The esteemed second edition of this classic, expanded with the life of Van Mander (1548-1606), the "Toegift" in verse by Bredero and extensive, updated indices. The first edition appeared in 1604.