L'anatomie necessaire pour l'usage du dessein / par Edme Bouchardon.

A Paris : Chez Chereau et Joubert, [approximately 1787-1789]

3 leaves, 4 unnumbered pages, 15 [that is, 14] leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 47 cm (folio)

H. Ronot, Le traité d'anàtomie d'Edme Bouchardon, Bull. de la Société de l'histoire de l'art française (1968), pp. 93-100.

M. Duval & E. Cuyer, Histoire de l'anatomie plastique ([1898]), p. 186.

L. Choulant, Hist. and bib. of anatomical illustration (1920) p. 275.

A. Hahn, P. Dumaitre & J. Saimon-Contet, Histoire de la médecine et du livre médical (1962) p. 289.

Bridson & J. White, Plant, animal and anatomical illustration (1990), E66 & E67.

Monique Kornell, Edme Bouchardon's anatomy book for artists, Getty Research Journal, no. 8 (2016), p. 47 and p. 52 note 29.

Plates numbered 2-15.

Decorative engraved title page. Preliminary text leaves also engraved.

Engraved title page and plates 5-12 signed "Ed. Bouchardon del." Plates 13-15 signed "J. Ph. Bouchardon del." Plates 2-4 signed "Bouchardon jun. del.": identified by Ronot as Jacques Philippe. All plates also signed by Jacques Gabriel Huquier, the engraver.

Copy 1 Supplier: Marlborough Rare Books. Binding: Contemp. red boards.