Hints on the Art of Oriental Painting

by Burton Wright Gilbert, c.

$8,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Signed

Green morocco, brown spine with raised bands in six compartments each with decorative gilt motif. Oriental Painting - Gilbert gilt-tooled in second compartment, gilt double fillets on covers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, marbled red and blue endpapers A fascinating, signed instructional book on natural science illustration using theorems, the author's 20 color drawings are marvelous and in remarkable condition, as bright as the day they were painted. The only other copy

• Binding: Leather

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