Author: DAVID COX
Title: A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: from the first rudiments to the finished picture: with examples in Outline, Effect, and Colouring.
Description: Printed by J. Tyler for S. and J. Fuller, 1814. Large oblong folio, 290 x 480 mm. pp. 32> 24 soft ground etchings, 16 uncoloured aquatints, and sixteen hand-coloured plates on grey backgrounds. Plate 13 of the aquatints has the top corner torn away just catching the plate mark but well away from the printed image. Contemporary half sheep, leather title label, rebacked with original spine laid down. First Edition, Second issue, with illustration of Haymaking and Reaping in the first series of illustrations, taking the place of an illustration of Convict Hulks on the Thames in the first issue. "It is the best and most important >of the early drawing books." (Tooley). Tooley 163> Abbey Life 115.

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