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The Complete Oil Painter (Papermacs)
by Johnston, Frederick Charles
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0333322770
- ISBN 13
- 9780333322772
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Papermac.* Binding and cover condition: Stiff card cloth textured covers, very slight shelf wear to corners, no creases to spine or hinge. Some marks to lower rear edge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight & bright. Neat gift inscription to inside of front cover, no annotatons. No tanning, edges slightly grubby. VG* Illustrations: B/w and colour illustrations with numerous b/w line drawings throughout.* Pages: 148 pp. text. iii pp. index at rear.* Product Description :- The Complete Oil Painter is for the many amateur artists who have made some progress in oil painting and feel they would now like to aim higher. Frederick Johnston, using his own paintings, discusses the basic groundwork essential to working with oils - materials, preliminary sketching, control of colour, composition, atmospheric effects - and goes on to consider more advanced techniques and how these can be used to develop an effective personal style.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus, with only slight wear and a small inscription reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 737
- Title
- The Complete Oil Painter (Papermacs)
- Author
- Johnston, Frederick Charles
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0333322770
- ISBN 13
- 9780333322772
- Publisher
- Papermac
- Place of Publication
- London UK 156
- Date Published
- 1981-10-01
- Size
- 24.9 x 19 x 2.3 cm
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