Art Recreations: Being a Complete Guide to Pencil Drawing, Oil Painting, Water-color Painting... With valuable receipts for preparing materials
Boston: J. E. Tilton, 1860. 8vo. 331 pages, 4-page advertisements at end. Frontispiece, illustrations in text. Publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered on spine, top edges gilt. Cloth with a few stains and with some light wear at extremities, a sound copy, the sheets lightly browned, early owner's penciled name on flyleaf. Item #406756
First edition of this extensive manual of artistic practices in the fine and decorative arts. Includes drawing, painting, sculpture, papier mache, feather flowers, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquarium, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc.
Price: $75.00