Richardson Houston Leitch Rowbotham Duncan (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Undated c1880s. Hardback copy in tan cloth boards with gold gilt lettering and floral design to front, no dustjacket. 46pp + 4pp book catalogue to rear. 9 colour plates, 8 b/w sketches. Not library copy, name/date in ink to front pastedown. (50/1).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Tipped-in Colour illustrations. Very Good, without dust jacket. Prize inscription on front free endpaper.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good. T. M. Richardson, J. A. Houston R.S.A., R. P. Leitch, T. L. Rowbotham, Edward Duncan, J. Needham (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1881 though not dated. Size quarto, 10" tall, 46 pages. Mid brown cloth covered boards with titles on gilt frame surrounded by a leafy branch in green to the front cover and plain spine, attractive School Board for London prize gilt vignette on the rear cover. Condition good, the binding is slightly rubbed at the edges otherwise very nice. There is foxing to the title page, contents page and first 3 text pages and also the last four text pages, the margins of the last colour plate and the publisher's advertisements and rear end-paper. The rest of the contents are quite clean, there is the odd spot or two to the margins of a couple of the plates but the plates are good, printed on different paper and tipped in to the book. With each plate there are excellent instructions on how to execute the sketch from start to finish and there are also vignettes as chapter headpieces which on the contents page are also recommended to the reader can be reproduced as further sketching lessons. Nine colour plates and black and white sketches by T. M. Richardson, J. A. Houston R.S.A., R. P. Leitch, T. L. Rowbotham, Edward Duncan, J. Needham.