[ARTIST’S MANUAL] – [BURG, A.R. & P. VAN DER]. Handleiding tot de Methode van het Hout- En Marmerschilderen, zooals die theoretisch en practisch wordt geleerd en toegepast op de Schilderschool van Gebr. A.R. & P. van der Burg, te Rotterdam [..].

Description

Rotterdam, P.M. Bazendijk, 1876, [2],48 text-pages. With 36 (col.) lithogr. plates (dep. i.a. wood & marble patterns) printed in Amsterdam by “Amand”. Folio (ca. 46,5 x 31 cm.), late 19th-cent. gilt-lettered boards. – And 1 other by HENRI ADAN (“Cours De Dessin”. Publ. by “Pensionnat Des Frères De N[otre].D[ame]. De Miséricorde”, ca. 1870, consisting of 1 title-leaf & 16 (tinted) plates (dep. ills.). Folio oblong (ca. 43,5 x 55,5 cm.), late 19th-cent. cloth-backed boards. Very rare publication (no copies in WorldCat). Upper inner hinge broken).

Footnote

¶ Ad 1: Rare first & only edition (text printed by “Wed. S. Benedictus, Rotterdam”) of a late 19th-cent. Dutch artist’s manual for painting wood & marble patterns. – With defects (spine dam./ strengthened with cloth, binding rubbed/ worn, bookblock loosening, lacks first free end-paper, several text-leaves & plates loose(ning) and/or sl. frayed/ torn in outer blank margin, occ. sl. soiled/ waterstained).