Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours. Illustrated by a series of Twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours, and numerous woodcuts

Book Description

London: Routledge, 1885. New edition. . 7 x 10 1/4. (viii), 286 pages + 26 plates. 69 woodcuts in the text. Frontis has offset onto title; a few small wood engravings with sepia background have offset; otherwise contents are fine. Plate 3 is bound in upside-down. Finely bound in contemporary polished tree calf Bickers & Sons (binder's stamp on endpaper); spine richly tooled in gilt, board edges & turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gily. Very slight wear to extremities. An exceptional, handsome copy. A tour de force of Leighton's Chromatic Process (frequently mistaken for chromolithography), printed entirely from woodblocks. It is virtually "a kind of manual of the art of color printing" Friedman Color Printing in England no. 83, plate XII; McLean Victorian Book Design p. 192, color plate XI ("among the most improbable examples of colour printing of the whole century").

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