Art Recreations: Being A Complete Guide to Penicil Drawing, Oil Painting, Water-Color Painting, et al.

A first edition copy of this copiously detailed guide to differing art styles. The first edition of the work.In the publisher's original blue cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and in text throughout.A work by Madame L.B. Urbino, Prof. Henry Day, and others.A comprehensive guide to thirty art styles, including moss work, antique paintings, shell work, theorem painting, coloring photographs, the aquarium, wax work, and more.With valuable receipts for preparing materials. In publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine, with marks to rear board. Spotting to boards. Ink inscription to front free endpaper. Front hinge cracked and fragile. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light age toning and the odd faint damp stain. Good.