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COX, David (1783-1854). A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: from the first rudiments, to the finished picture. With examples in Outline, Effect, and Colouring. London: J.Tyler for S. & J.Fuller, [1813]-1814 [plates watermarked 1818].
Oblong 2° (289 x 473mm). 24 soft-ground etched plates, 16 aquatint plates, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates, all after David Cox. (The soft-ground etched plates spotted, two plates with small repaired tears to margins.) Contemporary red half morocco, gilt morocco label on upper cover (extremities rubbed, lacking one cornerpiece, front inner hinge split).
FIRST EDITION, second issue, of "Cox's most ambitious work. It takes the student in forty-six splendid plates through a series of progressive lessons from simple line drawings, shown by soft-ground etchings, to elaborate and highly finished watercolours, shown by coloured aquatints": (P.Bicknell & J.Munro. Gilpin to Ruskin, Drawing masters and their manuals, 1800-1860, 1988 p.31. Tooley 163 ("the best and most important of the early drawing books").
Oblong 2° (289 x 473mm). 24 soft-ground etched plates, 16 aquatint plates, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates, all after David Cox. (The soft-ground etched plates spotted, two plates with small repaired tears to margins.) Contemporary red half morocco, gilt morocco label on upper cover (extremities rubbed, lacking one cornerpiece, front inner hinge split).
FIRST EDITION, second issue, of "Cox's most ambitious work. It takes the student in forty-six splendid plates through a series of progressive lessons from simple line drawings, shown by soft-ground etchings, to elaborate and highly finished watercolours, shown by coloured aquatints": (P.Bicknell & J.Munro. Gilpin to Ruskin, Drawing masters and their manuals, 1800-1860, 1988 p.31. Tooley 163 ("the best and most important of the early drawing books").