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Art Recreations: Being a Complete Guide to Pencil Drawing, Oil Painting, Water-color Painting... With valuable receipts for preparing materials
by URBINO, Madame L. B.; Henry DAY; and other authors
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Cloth with a few stains and with some light wear at extremities, a sound copy, the sheets lightly browned, early owner's pencile
- Seller
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Ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: J. E. Tilton, 1860. 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. 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. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 406756
- Title
- Art Recreations: Being a Complete Guide to Pencil Drawing, Oil Painting, Water-color Painting... With valuable receipts for preparing materials
- Author
- URBINO, Madame L. B.; Henry DAY; and other authors
- Book Condition
- Used - Cloth with a few stains and with some light wear at extremities, a sound copy, the sheets lightly browned, early owner's pencile
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. E. Tilton
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1860
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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About the Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
Biblio member since 2009
Ardsley, New York
About Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
Founded in 1978 and purchased in 2016 by Thomas Lecky, Riverrun specializes in fine, rare, and unusual books from all periods and genres. There are large holdings in art, photography, artists' books, fine printing, books about books, literature, signed and inscribed books, early printing, and Americana. We have thousands of books not listed online in these and many other fields, and are constantly sourcing new material from private collections and public auction. Please let us know if we can help you locate something not listed in our stock. We are members of the ABAA and are certified members of the Appraiser's Association of America.
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