Cox (David) A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours..., 56 plates, comprising 24 soft-ground etchings, 16 uncoloured aquatints and 16 hand-coloured aquatints, plate 13 (uncoloured aquatint) with loss to upper corner not affecting image, occasional tiny marginal worming to soft-ground etchings, some hand-coloured plates with margins darkened, few very short marginal nicks or tears, the occasional stain, some spotting and light surface soiling, contemporary half morocco, rebacked preserving original backstrip, morocco label to upper cover tooled in gilt, rubbed with some wear to extremities, [Abbey, Life 115; Tooley 163 "the best and most important of the early drawing books"], J. Tyler, for S. & J. Fuller, 1814; and 2 others with lithographed plates, including John George Wood's The Principles and Practice of Sketching Landscape Scenery from Nature (third edition, 1825), oblong folio (3)
⁂ Originally published in 12 parts. This copy is Tooley's second issue, with an illustration of Haymaking and Reaping replacing the Convict Hulks in the first series of plates.
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