SALMON POLYGRAPHICE <> peter helm polygraphicum catalogues <> SOLD to a Düsseldorf Printing Collection <> 1st Edition Provenance SOTHEBY'S LONDON Rare Books Sale <> archives POLYGRAFICUM1980-2022POLYGRAPHICUM archives

SALMON POLYGRAPHICE <> peter helm polygraphicum catalogues <> SOLD to a Düsseldorf Printing Collection <> 1st Edition Provenance SOTHEBY'S LONDON Rare Books Sale <> The first edition of Polygraphice was published in 1672 and remained a best seller for the next thirty years, going through five revisions and eight editions until its final printing in 1701. In the final edition, Salmon boasted that the popular art manual had sold some fifteen thousand copies.10 Jan 2022 <>

<< HANG THE KING & QUEEN in the Dining Room Article citing the 3rd Edition (Heidelberg University Library) <> Back to the seventeenth century, where I am working my way through a series of instructional books produced to meet the apparent and universal demand for better health, more wealth, and an enhanced quality of life. For most of yesterday I was in the company of William Salmon, Doctor of Physick, who wrote an comprehensive and detailed compendium titled Polygraphice: or The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing, Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dyeing, Beautifying and Perfuming, which was published in eight expanding editions from 1671 to 1701. Here we have the third edition, from the University of Heidelberg, which includes an additional “Discourse on Perspective and Chiromancy”. In some ways, this is your typical early modern mishmash of arts, “sciences”, and a bit of magic, but in other ways it is very precise and technical, the instructions for perspective and shading particularly so. Salmon is always referred to as an “empiric” in terms of his medical practice, but his publications are so diverse one assumes they are primarily derivative—yet there seems to be some strong opinions among the instructions. <>

<> RARE BOOKS FINE BINDINGs at th HELM REFS https://web.archive.org/web/20091115161911/http://www.polygraphicum.de/refs.html cf. Dominic Winter Lot 115, 26.6.2019, 8th Edition, 1701, Sold for GBP 920,00 cf. BOOK OF THE WEEK https://blog.lib.utah.edu/book-of-the-week-polygraphice/