Original boards and spine restored by Jack Papuchyan of H & H Book Services, Glendale, California. For more information on the restoration process, please contact me. To contact Jack of H & H Book Services, call (818)-242-2665 or email hhbookservices@gmail.com. Visit their site at: www.hhbookservices.com.
From the third edition translated by Jean Francois Rigaud (1802) reads:
X TRANSLATOR S PREFACE.
The first translation of this Treatise into English,
appeared in the year 1721. It does not declare
by whom it was made ; but though it professes to
have been done from the original Italian, it is
evident, upon a comparison, that more use was
made of the revised edition of the French transla-
tion. Indifferent, however, as it is, it had become
so scarce, and had risen to a price so extravagant,
that, to supply the demand, it was found necessary,
in the year 1796 to reprint it as it stood,
with all its errors on its head, no opportunity then
offering of procuring a fresh translation.
I found 18 other copies that have been professionally restored but they do not have the original boards with the original spine (four shown in the video). According to Worldcat.org there are only 53 copies of this edition. The copy at the Smithsonian bequeathed by Bern Dibner does not have the original spine. I have yet to research other libraries and universities but I am quite sure Dr. Elmer Belt's copy at UCLA and John W. Lieb's copy in the Samuel C. Williams Library at Stevens Institute are original but not certain.
DA VINCI, Leonardo. Treatise of Painting. London J. Senex; and W. Taylor, 1721. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION 1721. 8vo, approximately 205 x 120 mm, 8 x 4¾ inches, title page printed red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait of the artist, 35 engraved plates of which 4 folding, a few head- and tailpieces, pages: (16), 189 plus [16]- index and 3 pages of adverts. LT
