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~KASTNER, CHARLES~ KRUSI'S DRAWING TEXTILE DESIGNS. NUMBER 1-6   [All?].~ 
New York, D. Appleton & Co. [1877][Title page]. Identified on cover, in 
gilt as follows: Krusi's /Textile Drawing 1-6 / Published by / American 
Book Company[.]Oblong, 84 Pp., 19 x 28.5 cm. Kastner is identified as 
Director of the Lowell Course of Industrial Art / Massachusetts. Institute 
of Technology. Krusi was a life long teacher of art in the American 
schools, and also a follower of Pestalozzi. He published many drawing 
manuals and teacher's guides ti drawing as well as an appreciation of 
Pestalozzi and a privately printed autobiography. This book is a series of 
six work books, each with two pages of text divided into two columns and 
ten pages of sheets with designs printed at the top [at first] for copying, 
followed by a blank page. These grow increasingly large and complex and by 
book 5, they cover one page and are in color. In book 6 almost all are in 
color, but in this copy they have been enclosed upside down and backwards 
in their order. Among the plates there are 7 printed in full color. Most of 
these are quite complex versions of  paisley patterns. Some first appears 
in black and white, and then in color. The color printing is excellent, 
full and rich. The paper om which the color prints appear is much finer 
than  the other paper used. ~This book, under either title is not to be 
found in any American library noted at OCLC, CIC, Melvyl, NYP, LNN, YUS, 
CRI, Massachusetts Library systems on line; Brown, Newberry, Canadian Union 
Catalog;  COPAC. As a color plate book it is unknown to both Bennett and 
McGrath.~ I suspect that usually the parts were given, one by one to 
students who copied the designs and destroyed the book. In part form, it 
would be extremely ephemeral. Some of the plates in part 5 are loose,  but 
they remain in Fine condition with the rest of the book.. The ownership 
signature, in pen, of William F. Wallace is found on the front free end 
paper. Bound into flexible brown cloth, gilt title on the front board, 
Fine. $575.00

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