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Sketching from Nature in Water-Colours. With illustrations in chromo-lithography after original water-colour drawings

Sketching from Nature in Water-Colours. With illustrations in chromo-lithography after original water-colour drawings

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Sketching from Nature in Water-Colours. With illustrations in chromo-lithography after original water-colour drawings

by PENLEY Aaron 1806-1870

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London: Piccadilly: John Camden Hotten. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. PENLEY Aaron. With FIFTEEN attractive colour chromo-lithographs First edition, [1869], folio, original red cloth, gilt titled & decorated, a bit rubbed and faded, bevelled edges, inner hinges strengthened, a.e.g., [4], [32] pp, with a pictorial title page, a plate of colour samples and 14 mounted chromo-lithographs, mostly of scenes in Scotland, Wales and the Lake District, ink name to fep (Edith J Warne 1874). One of several elaborate instructional manuals by a popular Victorian water colourist, printed by Strangeways and Walden, ink name to fep, hinges strengthened. (352*252 mm). One of Hotten's larger books and becoming difficult to find in its original binding. A very good example.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
007872
Title
Sketching from Nature in Water-Colours. With illustrations in chromo-lithography after original water-colour drawings
Author
PENLEY Aaron 1806-1870
Illustrator
PENLEY Aaron
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
John Camden Hotten
Place of Publication
London: Piccadilly
Size
Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
Weight
3.31 lbs
Keywords
Colour illustrated art topography nature tuition drawing
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Books with Colour Plates; Art Artists Sketch books;

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