ANIMAL PAINTING & ANATOMY [The New Art Library 2nd Series - Vol XVIII].

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Publisher's advert to rear panel of dw/dj indicates a forthcoming new volume to the series: Practical Portrait Painting by Frank Slater,which was eventually published 1951.] VG++/VG.No owner inscrptn, price-clip to dw/dj.Black,heavy paper background coloured dw/dj with colour pictorial onlay illustration and green ink letters with some inevitable shelf-wear,creasing and some chipping - with minimal loss) to edges and corners. Miniscule loss to both top corners particularly,miniscule rubbing and similar loss to lower two corners.Small closed tears/nicks to both front+rear,top edges of dw/dj.Head of spine/backstrip affected by 6/16" deep horizontal loss causing partial loss of 'New Art Library' in title,with the closed tear also causing the two capital letters 'A' + 'P' (from Animal & Painting) to be lost and missing from the title.Foot of same has an approx 1" x 1/2" high+wide, isosceles-shaped triangular loss,affecting the publisher's printed name's letters.Described hard,but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads or sounds! Top edges coloured pale green,with some fading/sunning towards headband area,fore-edges slightly aged/ toned - as usual/normal; contents bright,tight and near pristine - apart from some minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting to both feps and pastedowns - these in particular suffering fom offset foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.No dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,no interior marking or annotations - possibly an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and aforementioned offset foxing+spotting to endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,7-336pp [paginated] includes list of b/w plates,Pts I+II comprising XI and X chapters respectively,profuse mixture of b/w line illus (majority),7 b/w plates from various artists' animal paintings.1 b/w horse-racing photograph,and an index. Plus [unpaginated] half-title page - recto of which has
colour,pictorial onlay illustration (repeated from dw/dj) frntis,b/w vignette (head of cow) illustrated title page and contents list/table.
Mr Calderon has himself had great success as an animal painter and his capacity for instructing others has been fully proved by the fact that amongst his distinguished pupils may be numbered Mr. Lionel Edwards,Sir Alfred Munnings,R.A., Mr Cecil Aldin and a host of other notable animal painters.
This book serves two main purposes:
(1) It is a convenient and reliable guide to the normal artist who may have occasion to refer to it in the difficult task of introducing animals into his work;
(2) It covers the whole field of anatomical study of horses, dogs, cattle, cats, &c., &c.,for one who wishes to make animal painting his speciality.
A volume from this publisher's 'New Art Library
(Second Series) and is listed as Volume XVIII,and is the most expensive at it's original price of 30s.
W. Frank Calderon was the founder and Principal of The School of Animal Painting,Kensington, London,and sometime lecturer on Animal Painting at the Royal Academy.
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