[Rarebooks] FS: 1850 Nature Sketching & Painting w/Color Plates

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “An Elementary Treatise on Sketching from Nature: with the
Principles of Light and Shade, the Theory of Colours, &c.”

By John Wood.
Published in Worcester by Whittaker and Co.
No date, but 1850.

DISCUSSION: An engaging provincial art manual, intended to give readers
practical instruction on drawing, sketching, perspective, light & shade,
colors, and figures. For the Victorians there was not only profit to be
gained from attaining artistic skills, but by better understanding nature
as well, and Wood notes that “the contemplation of nature” gives “an ample
reward for any time and pains we may bestow in its attainment”. The two
hand-colored plates are also quite charming- the frontispiece shows an
artist’s palette with primary, secondary and tertiary colors, and the
other shows three stages in the coloring of a landscape with watercolors.
Uncommon.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6.25”x10”, 52 pages plus 7 engraved plates, 2
hand-colored. Publisher’s embossed cloth with gilt title.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers somewhat faded and worn, hinges a bit wobbly,
cloth lifting in a few spots, light internal soil and a few spots, small
marginal stain. Mounted on the front endpaper is the original engraved
manuscript receipt from the author for the purchase of this copy in 1850
for 6s. 6d. Binder’s ticket of Remnant & Edmonds.

PRICE: $187.50 net, ppd.

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