INVENTORY #113206
The Oxford Drawing Book
"with a New Method of Practical Perspective Detailed in a Novel
WHITTOCK, Nathaniel
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Title continues: "or the Art of Drawing, and the Theory and Practice of Perspective in a Series of Letters Containing Progressive Information on Sketching, Drawing, and Colouring Landscape Scenery, Animals, and the Human Figure with a New Method of Practical Perspective Detailed in a Novel, Easy, and Perspicuous Style for the Use of Teachers, or for Self-Instruction." Features lithographs by John Collins of Philadelphia. Printed in New York by William E. Dean. The book is a drawing instruction book for families and most likely used by a Victorian-era mother or governess in order to teach drawing to children. This book features some penciled images as well as several scribbles on blank pages that were most likely produced by children during study.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Collins, Keese & Co.
- Edition: A New and Improved Edition
- Date Published: 1840
- Place Published: New York
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Fair
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
vi, 159p. 23.5 cm x 29.5 cm. Leather spine with cloth board and gold lettering on boards. Features 105 plates by John Collins of Philadelphia. Binding worn, particularly on spine and corners of boards. Boards stained. Foxing on pages. Minor rips tears and penciling to pages. Last page that completes list of plates missing. Fair condition.