The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water Colours.

London: Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, 1855.

Price: $500.00


About the item

First edition in Book Form; published in parts the previous year. 26 chromolithographs in the Leighton Brothers' Chromatic Process. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt spine. Spine partially perished, front hinge starting, internally fine. Abbey Life 94 (the second edition).

Item #211812

Ruari McLean, Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing, p.192: "On only one plate, no.4, with twenty five panels showing harmonious arrangments of colour, does there appear to be any hand-colouring. Plates 22 and 23 might be sketches, or notes, by a French Impressionist, and are, in their way, among the most improbable examples of colour printing of the whole century."