[Rarebooks] FS: 1859 Guide to Fresco, Tempra, Encaustic Painting

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

"Painting Popularly Explained: including Fresco, Tempera, Encaustic,
Miniature, Oil, Mosaic, Water-Colour, Missal, Painting on Pottery,
Porcelain, Enamel, Glass, &c. with Historical Sketches of the Progress of
the Art"

By Thomas John Gullick & John Timbs.

Published in London by Kent and Co.: 1859.

A valuable source of information which surveyed the history of various
types of painting from a technical aspect, delving into the subjects of
processes, materials, tools, techniques and such. An appendix treats
briefly on scene painting, painted embroidery, crayon or pastel painting,
framing & hanging pictures, study at the Royal Academy, and “What is
Pre-Raphaelitism?”

Hardcover. 4.25”x6.75”, x + 326 pages, black & white frontispiece; marbled
endpapers; all edges gilt; elaborate full leather prize binding with
entwined strapwork and the Royal Arms in gilt on the front cover; raised
bands and gilt spine title; covers fresh and bright; prize label on
pastedown; very light corner stain on first few pages and some very minor
margin darkening and a few spots, else a very nice copy indeed.  $100.00


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