Nouveau manuel complet du coloriste, by Blanchard, Émile Théophile; Aristide Michel Perrot; L.-S. Thillaye - 1841: ou, Instruction simplifiée et élémentaire pour l'enluminure, le lavis et la retouche des gravures, images, lithographies, planches d'histoire naturelle, cartes géographique, peinture orientale, plants topographiques....

Paris: À la Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1841. Nouvelle édition, très-augmentée. Good/The definitive 19th-century reference on hand-coloring. Instructions begin with how to set up and equip a workshop and how to organize work flow, before moving on to in-depth commentary on the preparation and use of dozens of different pigments, how they are employed in different environments (whether engravings, lithographs, landscapes, botanicals, maps, etc.), and how they change over time. The text is illustrated by three multi-folded plates, one of them with a hand-colored sampler of 40 different watercolors.. 15 cm; iv, 258 pages, 90 pages publisher's catalogue, and 3 folded leaves of plates, one of them hand-colored. In decorated paper over boards, leather spine. Rather worn on all edges, corners, and faces, although spine is relatively fresh-looking, with title and zig-zag decorations in gilt. Some scattered foxing. Yet binding is sound and text is entire.