MATHER, George Marshall. The Elements of Drawing; containing the first principles of light and shade, colouring, and perspective, Edinburgh: Daniel Lizars [and others], 1830, 12°, FIRST EDITION, 8 engraved plates, 3 with hand-coloured examples of tints (first plate with laminated repairs to verso, slight offsetting to title, a few marginal stains to one plate) [bound with:] L. MANSION. Letters upon the Art of Miniature Painting, London: R. Ackermann, [(?) 1823], 12°, engraved illustration laid down to verso of first blank, one folding hand-coloured plate, 2 works bound together, modern half morocco.

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MATHER, George Marshall. The Elements of Drawing; containing the first principles of light and shade, colouring, and perspective, Edinburgh: Daniel Lizars [and others], 1830, 12°, FIRST EDITION, 8 engraved plates, 3 with hand-coloured examples of tints (first plate with laminated repairs to verso, slight offsetting to title, a few marginal stains to one plate) [bound with:] L. MANSION. Letters upon the Art of Miniature Painting, London: R. Ackermann, [(?) 1823], 12°, engraved illustration laid down to verso of first blank, one folding hand-coloured plate, 2 works bound together, modern half morocco.

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The two works are bound with an incomplete work, probably James Ferguson's The Art of Drawing in Perspective made Easy (lacking title, preliminaries and plates).

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