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     The third edition of the collection Des ordres de colonnes, s. l., s.n., s. d., is identical to the 1684 edition. But the double page illustrating four Corinthian orders which was added in 1684 at the end of the Traité des manieres de dessiner les ordres was removed at the end of this collection, as in the reprint made by Claude Jombert at the 18th century. In the copy in Tours it is put after the title page.
     As in the preceding editions, the collection Des ordres de colonnes is bound after the Traité des manières de dessiner les ordres (Paris, Aubouyn, Émery and Clousier) and precedes the Representations geometrales published in Paris, s.n., dated 1688, which leads one to think that the whole work can be dated 1688.

Frédérique Lemerle – 2014
(Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Cesr, Tours)

Critical bibliography

A. Blum, L’œuvre gravé d’Abraham Bosse, Paris, Morancé, 1924.

G. Duplessis, "Catalogue de l’œuvre de Abraham Bosse", Revue universelle des arts, Paris, 1859.

S. Join-Lambert et M. Préaud (eds.), Abraham Bosse savant graveur, Tours, vers 1604-1676, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France/Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Paris/Tours, 2004, p. 271.

F. Lemerle, "Les livres d’architecture du graveur Abraham Bosse", J.-P. Garric, É. d’Orgeix & E. Thibault (eds.), Le livre et l’architecte, Wavre, Mardaga, 2011, pp. 172-179.

R.-A. Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1939, vol. 1, pp. 471-534.