practical hints composition painting illustrated von burnet john (15 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New. In.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is a guide to painting in three parts; composition, chiaroscuro, and color. It includes tips and tricks from some of the most famous and admired painters from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools. This book is an important resource for aspiring painters and art lovers.

Zustand: Very Good. Fifth Edition. Hardback. Quarto. 31pp. Original boards with some rubbing and marks, later rebacked in green cloth with new endpapers, slight foxing and some damp staining to plates, otherwise about very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. New Edition. Contemporary half-calf hardback and marbled paper boards; moderately worn and slightly darkened with a few small nicks and some mild edge-wear; nonetheless holding firm and square and still showing well. Internally, sound and clean, just signs of an old erased stamp to the lower margin of page 9, a tiny old price ticket at the endpaper, and the joints are parting between the endpaper and the half-title. Even so, the contents are very secure, tidy and tight with no worming and no damp staining. Size: 4to (280mm x 225mm). Comprises: Practical Hints on Composition (published 1836, with 9 full-page plates); Practical Hints on Light and Shade (published 1834, with 7 full-page plates); and Practical Hints on Colour (published 1835, with 8 full-page hand-coloured plates. But note: one plate is missing). Thus a total of 23 plates (7 of which are hand-coloured). And so a very good copy lacking just one plate offered for sale at a sensible price.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. New Edition - Part One (Fourth Edition), Part Two (Eighth Edition), Part Three (Eighth Edition), Part Four (Second Edition). Large hardback copy in quarter bound black leather with gold gilt lettering and design, burgundy cloth boards, no dustjacket as issued. Rough cut page edges. Colour and b/w plates with tissue throughout, b/w illustrations within text. Not library copy, no inscriptions. Previous owner's Ex Libris sticker to front pastedown, some rubbing to leather spine, Binding is good, pages are very good. (2/5).

In-4°. Editors green boards. 31 pp, 9 engraved plates. With ex-libris of Sarah Angelina Acland of Oxford. The plates with foxing.

New edition, 4to, 3 parts in one, each with its own title page, part 1 is dated 1830, pat 2 1834, part 3 1830, all plates present (including some hand-coloured), some light foxing to part one, cont. hard-grain morocco, decorated in gilt and blind, lower over detached.

[vi +] 22 [4bl.] pp.+ 9 plates out-of-text (some marges of plate 7 are cut out, not affecting the illustrations), 29cm., modern cart.cover, some foxing, good condition.

New (8th) edition. Large 4to. VIII, (4), 73; (8), 22; (8), 45; IX, (2), 64pp. With 41 (8 col.) plates. Orig. half calf, t.e.g. Large Paper India Proofs Copy. - Very good copy.

Rebacked hard back binding in publisher's original plain brown paper covered boards, new green cloth spine with original paper title label, albeit rather worn, original Booksellers ticket inside 'Dobbs and Company, 13 Soho Square, London'. 4to 11½'' x 9''. Each of the three parts has separate title page and pagination, Part 1 is dated 1830 (4th Edition); Part 2 is dated 1829 (3rd Edition); Part 3 is dated 1830 (3rd Edition). All 25 plates present and correct: Part 1 has 9 plates (with multiple figures to each plate), Part 2 has 8 plates (with multiple figures to each plate), Part 3 has 8 hand coloured plates (some full page, some with multiple figures to each plate), followed by 4 page publisher's catalogue, original end leaves. Pencil notes concerning the contents of the volume inside the front cover, corners rubbed, without any foxing or age toning to the paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Technique & Materials].

1st ed. 22pp, 89 plates. Bound with 'Hints on light and shade in painting', 1826, 45pp., 8 plates. A little underlining & marginalia; some foxing & browning; binding tight; vellum a little discoloured & foxed Used - Very Good. VG in full vellum.

3 parts in 1 volume. First edition of the collected works on the art of painting by the Scottish artist John Burnet (1784-1868), illustrated by himself. It is divided into three parts: on composition, chiaroscuro (light and shadow), and colour.Minor foxing. New spine and endpapers, boards somewhat soiled. In very good condition.l Abbey, Life, 100; Dict. of Nat. Biography III, 407. Graesse I, 578. Contemporary calf, covers blind-tooled in a checkered pattern, gilt fillets and floral roll along the edges, spine with red morocco label lettered in gold, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges. With 25 full-page partly handcoloured etched and aquatint plates with 105 reproductions by Burnet of famous paintings. Pages: [4], 31, [1 blank]; VI, 45; V-IX, [3], 64 pp.