Craft Old Master Drawing by Watrous James (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.58.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.58.

hardcover. Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD. 2nd printing 1967; 170 clean, unmarked, tight pages; penciled name on upper front flyleaf; light soiling on upper edge of textblock; cover is clean and sturdy; price-clipped dust jacket has light shelf, edge, and corner wear, rubbing, and small tears.

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.