Painting and Sketching Book
by F.I. Wetherbee
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Collectible; Very Good
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. First Edition. "Being a collection of the most artistic color schemes ever produced in an instructive painting book, teaching accuracy, harmony, beauty and color with pencil, paint and brush. Complete instructions for the little artist". Lovely children's instructional art book, c. 1900. Clean and solidly VG in its wonderful decorative boards. Hinges barely starting but still perfectly strong. 12mo, oblong, hundreds of illustrations, a number of them nicely chromolithographed by the publisher, a few of them very neatly drawn in by a young artist in light crayon.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3689
- Title
- Painting and Sketching Book
- Author
- F.I. Wetherbee
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible; Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- M.A. Donohue & Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Keywords
- Rare children's, Rare Art instructionals, Rare Children's Instructionals
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...