80/6044 Bisschop, Jan de (1628-1671). Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum, Per Joh. Episcopium. Ex formis Nicolai Visscher./ Signorum veterum icones. Amst., H. de Leth, (1740), etched title plate to the first series by Gerard DE LAIRESSE and 57 etched plates by Jan de BISSCHOP; title print "Signorum veterum Icones" and 100 etched plates by Jan DE BISSCHOP, contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, folio.

- First series trifle foxed, mostly along edges; 2nd series plates for the greater part yellowed. Binding worn/ rubbed along extremities; paper over covers partly worn off.

= Rare edition, probably published by De Leth as a series of prints, without the original letterpress titles and dedication and content leaves. On the series ("Icones"): Bolten, Dutch and Flemish Drawing Books p.69-70 describes the editio princeps of ±1669 with a few dedication and contents leaves, the etchings unnumbered. On both series, cf. in extenso: J.G. van Gelder and I. Jost, Jan de Bisschop and his Icones & Paradigmata (...) (Doornspijk, 1985); cf. Hollstein 6 (a very incomplete entry). The first series after i.a. Caracci, Dominichino and Michelangelo, 2nd series reproducing Greek and Roman sculpture. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIV.