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(ARTIST'S MANUAL.) Kaufmann, Theodore. Kauffman's American Painting Book. The Art of Painting, or Of Imitating the Effects of Color in Nature. 10 mounted color plates of painting techniques on 4 leaves. Folio, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth with blind ruling, scattered soiling, spine ends worn; glue bleed-through on endpapers, scattered foxing affecting plates, most heavily the first, soft crease to title and front blanks; 2 pages of advertisements for "Prang's American Chromos" bound at rear. Boston: L. Prang & Co, 1871
first edition of this uncommon american painting guide. A charming advertisement from the American Literary Gazette of 1 August 1871 states: "This book will be found to fill a void in educational literature. It treats in a concise manner of the modelling of colors, explaining the effects of light and shade upon them and the phenomena produced thereby. The illustrations accompanying the treatise are executed from the original sketches by the author, who is an artist of recognized standing." 5 copies are listed in OCLC.
