AMERICAN DRAWING BOOK, a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist: especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction.
New York: J.S. Redfield, 1847.
First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Item #50715
Quarto. 168pp. Profusely illustrated. Grey embossed cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth is rubbed and frayed at spine ends and corners; rubbed at edges. First and last blanks are browned. Light foxing. This copy with neat ownership statement on paste-down and on fly-leaf with original, well executed, ink drawing decorating the fly leaf. A couple mild wrinkles and creases to front fly leaf. Library stamp and withdrawn stamp over it on first blank. no ex-library markings otherwise. A very nice copy of this early instructional manual. Scarce in first edition.
Price: $325.00
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