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LAUGIER, Marc-Antoine, Abbé.

Maniere de bien juger des ouvrages de Peinture ... agumentée de plusieurs notes intéressantes par M.***.

Paris, chez Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1771. 12mo, pp. xii, 274, [2]; an excellent copy in contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine, red label. First edition of this posthumous work. This was the only manuscript left by Laugier on his death in 1769 that was sufficiently advanced for publication. It was edited, with critical notes, by C.N. Cochin.Cicognara 156; Herrmann, Laugier and 18th century French theory, p.18.

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