BIE,CORNELIS DE. Lemmens,G. (introd.). — Het Gulden Cabinet van de Edel Vry Schilderconst.

Antwerpen, 1662 [Reprint Soest, Davaco Publishers, 1971]. 15, 585,[2] pp. B./w. title-plate & [103] b./w. plts (portraits). Orig. green h.leather, spine raised in compartments & gilt tooled, marbled covers. - Library stamp on title-page. (Davaco collection). Copy of the Deluxe edition with green half leather binding with raised spine and marble covers. - Reprint of: Het gulden cabinet vande edele vry schilder-const [...], waer-inne begrepen is den ontsterffelijcken loff vande vermaerste constminnende geesten ende schilders van dese eeuw, hier inne naer het leven af-gebeldt, verciert met veel vermakelijcke rijmen ende spreucken. (Antwerpen, Juliaen van Montfort, 1662). - - With an introduction in English by G. Lemmens. - - Cornelis de Bie (1627- after 1711) was a notary in his native town of Lier who made his mark in history or more precisely in art history, with his Gulden Cabinet, a series of biographies and panegyrics on artists. His subjects are most South Netherlandish painters, sculptors and architects of the 17th and late 16th centuries.