LE BRUN, Charles. Bowles’s Passions of the Soul, represented in Several Heads; engraved in the manner of Drawings in Chalk, from the Designs of the late Celebrated Monsieur Le Brun. [2], 4pp., 20 plates including the engraved title, numbered[1], 2-19. Three additional slightly later engraved illustrations are pasted onto the verso of the title-page, and a small ‘sanguine’ portrait head of a lady at the head of the Preface page. Printed on thick paper. Disbound, but stitched. Very scarce.
4to. Printed for & Sold by the Proprietor, Carington Bowles, No 69 in St Pauls Church Yard. [1780?]
ESTC T220787, 4 copies only; BL, Cambridge, V & A, Wellcome. Copac adds Oxford, & Warburg. California and Yale only in America. The engravings are titled in both French and English; the text is in English.
The engravings are in the same direction as Montagu C1 [Paris 1727] except for nos. 6 and 15. The title page is signed ‘Fceler[?] Fecit’. The title-page and the plates are printed in imitation of sanguine.” Montagu C3. An advertisement below imprint on the title-page of Carington Bowles, The School of Art, c.1780: "Just published, Bowles’s Passions of the soul; represented in several heads .. from the designs of the late celebrated Monsieur le Brun, on 20 folio copper-plates."