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Painting and Sketching Book

  • Decorative Cloth
  • Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co
By F.I. Wetherbee
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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