[Rarebooks] FS: 1882 Color for Artists

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “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”

By William J. Muckley.
Published in London by Bailliere, Tindall and Cox in 1882. 2nd edition.

DISCUSSION: In addition to the material on permanent and fugitive colors
and their preparation and mixing, Muckley 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.

"William Jabez Muckley [1829-1905] was a noted English artist, the eldest
of the seven children of Jabez Muckley who was a glass artisan. Muckley
began his career as a glasscutter with W.H. B. & J. Richardson of Wordsley
and became their principal designer and engraver. When only 22, he was
responsible for much of the engraving that earned the firm considerable
praise in the Great Exhibition of 1851. After the Richardson glass firm
was declared insolvent in 1852 Muckley joined the Birmingham School of
Art. He won one of the eight scholarships competed for by students at all
the art schools in Britain. He went on to study in London and Paris and
obtained four art degrees of the highest class. He was head of the Burslem
School of Art for five years in the late 1850s and then went on to be
headmaster of Wolverhampton School of Art. In 1862 he became principal of
Manchester School of Art. He exhibited at the Royal Academy 1859–1904 and
at Suffolk Street, the Royal Institution and Grosvenor Gallery. In 1878 he
wrote The Student's Manual of Artistic Anatomy, with 25 plates of the
bones and surface muscles of the human figure, together with a description
of the origin, insertion and use of the muscles, and in 1882 wrote A
Handbook for Painters and Art Students about the character, nature and use
of colours, their permanent or fugitive qualities and the proper vehicles
to employ, also short remarks on the practice of painting in oil and water
colours, and wrote two other books. Muckley retired to White Notley Hall,
Witham, Essex about 1900 and died at home in 1905. William’s son Angelo
Fairfax Muckley (1859–1920) was also an artist who illustrated many
published works. A nephew, Louis Fairfax Muckley, (1862–1926) also
illustrated books, most notably the 1897 Dent edition of The Faerie Queene
by Edmund Spenser."

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 5.5"x9", xiv + 126 pages. No illustrations.
Publisher's pebbled cloth with gilt titles.

CONDITION NOTES: Spine cloth chipped and torn in several places, a few
cover scuffs and a little internal soil, half-title age-browned, tight
hinges.

PRICE: $75-

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