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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1762.

1. The topography of Freebridge Hundred and Half, in the county of Norfolk : containing the history and antiquities of the borough of King's Lynn, and of the towns, villages, hamlets, monasteries, churches, chapels, chanteries, and other religious buildings in that Hundred and Half, including a circuit of about fifteen miles round Lynn ... / by the Rev. Charles Parkin ...

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Creator:: Parkin, Charles, 1689-1765
Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: [4], 318, [4] p., [4] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:: 1762
Physical Description:: 8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts