First Book of the Fine and Useful Arts, for the Use of Schools and Lyceums
Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1832. 8vo. 185 x 120 mm. (7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches).vi, 126 pp. Illustrated with one engraved plate and 4 woodcuts in the text. Original printed board, rebacked in cloth; boards a bit stained and scuffed, minor foxing to preliminary pages, pencil notes on endpapers.
First edition and uncommon in the trade. This is Marshall Perry's first book, prepared for use in schools. Including chapters on printing, painting, sculpture, engraving lithography, architecture, heating and ventilation, manufacture of glass, pottery, dyeing, tanning, manufacture of fibrous materials, and the reduction of metals. He provides details on the history and techniques of printing, the mechanics of the printing press, and type founding. In the fields of painting he describes its history from the earliest times, methods for determining perspective, composition, paints and colors, and the use of light as a tool to focus the attention of the viewer. For each chapter he covers the basics of the field and provides a very good guide to information on the subject.The final leaf of each chapter contains a series of questions that pertain to the text and quiz the student on their comprehension of the information.
American Imprints 14194. (366). Item #366
Price: $150.00