Traicté des manieres de grauer en taille douce sur 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 manual on etching and engraving copperplate, printed and sold by Bosse himself for practising printmakers and apprentices learning acid grounds, burins and press construction. Etched plates show hands holding needles and burnishers over waxed plates, labelled tool studies, framed plates on trestles, and elevations of the rolling press with lettered parts and a scale in pieds.
