Craft Old Master Drawing, First Edition (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, (1957). First Edition. 10 x 7". xiii,169pp, Index, Notes. Cloth, very good condition, cloth moderately soiled and worn, interior clean, owner's name on pastedown; no dj if issued. Illustrated. From Foreword: "This work has been consciously written to present the craft of old-master drawings to contemporary artists, scholars, and students of drawings in the United States". ; 10 x 7 inches; 169 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Scholarly book on the tools, materials, formulas, recipes, & workshop procedures of traditional fine artists, including silverpoint, quill, reed, & metal pens; ink recipes; chalk, pastels, & crayons; charcoal & graphite. INSCRIBED by the author on the free endsheet: "To Frank: In friendship Jim". Watrous was a painter, muralist, mosaicist and professor at the University of Wisconsin, now best remembered for the Paul Bunyan murals in the Memorial Union and large mosaic on Vilas Hall; Frank was his colleague, art history professor Frank Horlbeck. First edition (first printing), hardcover in jacket as pictured. Book shows light edgewear, dent to bottom edge affecting both boards & the textblock; jacket shows light rubbing, couple of short tears, half-inch chip to upper front panel, light spine fade. Text clean; xiii, blank, 170 pages, diagrams, index, appendix, bibliography, many b/w illustrations. The printing of the illustrations is superior to those in the various reprints. Size: Quarto. Inscribed by the Author.