First Book of the Fine and Useful Arts, for the Use of Schools and Lyceums
by Perry, Marshall S
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About This Item
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).
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- Bookseller
- De Simone Company, Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 366
- Title
- First Book of the Fine and Useful Arts, for the Use of Schools and Lyceums
- Author
- Perry, Marshall S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Carter and Hendee
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1832
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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- First Edition
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- Rebacked
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- Plate
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