[Rarebooks] FS: Muckley on Artist's Colors -1894

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Muckley, William J. "A HANDBOOK FOR PAINTERS AND ART STUDENTS ON THE
CHARACTER, NATURE, AND USE OF COLOURS. Their permanent, or fugitive
qualities, and the vehicles proper to employ, with an appendix giving
permanent hues and tints. Also short remarks on the practice of painting
in oil and water colours"

London; Bailliere, Tindall and Cox: 1893. 4th ed.

In addition to the material on permanent and fugitive colors and their
preparation and mixing, he also deals with damage to oil paintings by gas
and damp, picture frames, care of pictures, varnishing and glazing, and
many other practical topics for the artist in the workroom. Muckley had
written a number of other art instruction titles.

Hardcover. 5.5”x9”, xiv + 146 pages, beautiful color frontispiece of
peacocks. Publisher’s pebbled cloth with gilt titles; light cover wear;
Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin school prize bookplate on the pastedown
and blindstamp on the title page. [09915] $150.00

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