The Art of Colouring and Painting Landscapes in Water Colours accompanied with Ten Engravings Selected from the Best Masters on Those Subjects

by an Amateur by fl., Author, Publisher, Engraver, Author d.1851

$9,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Period green and orange boards, printed orange paper label with decorative border, skillfully rebacked perserving original spine, with an impressive artistic ink manuscript inscription to Susan M. Jones on a preliminary leaf A first edition of this early drawing instruction book which Reese called the first American example of a popular genre. With the additional hand-colored engraved title and all ten aquatint plates, including six hand-colored and three hand-tinted.

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