Traicté des manieres de graver en taille dovce svr l'airin. Par le moyen des eaux fortes, & des vernix durs & mols. Ensemble de la façon d'en imprimer les planches & d'en construire la presse, & autres choses concernans lesdits arts
Abraham Bosse's 1645 Paris treatise on etching and engraving in copper, published from his own shop for printmakers and apprentices learning to bite plates, varnish them, and print. Bosse etched the plates himself: cuffed hands gripping burins, needles and scrapers over waxed copper, plus measured elevations of the rolling press, its columns, rollers and cranks, and plates propped on trestles.
