De la manière de graver : à l'eau forte et au burin, et de la gravure en manière noire
A 1745 Paris treatise by Abraham Bosse, published by Jombert, teaching printmakers and engravers how to work in etching, burin and mezzotint (manière noire). Its plates are engraved illustrations of workshop equipment and the hands of the craftsman at work. The pictures show a printing press, a workroom with a window and a bench, an engraver seated at a sloping desk among tools and casts, and a close view of a hand holding a burin over a plate, giving designers a clear record of how intaglio tools and studios were arranged.
