Studies in Animal Painting. With Eighteen Coloured Plates, from Water-Colour Drawings, Second Edition

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. Cloth. Good +. 12mo oblong; 24pp + [4pp advertisements publisher's other books], interleaved with 18 leaves with tipped-in plates printed by chromolithography, including fp; blind-stamped borders & ornaments to maroon cloth over, gilt-stamped title and author to front; ownership in ink to ffep; embossed oval stamp to title page "Department of Science and Art Reward"; light soiling, glue burn to endpapers, shaken; good plus. This edition in 3 WorldCat libraries. Wonderful color reproductions of watercolors of animals with corresponding text on a facing page giving instruction in drawing the animal and then filling in with watercolor. Animals included are: Collie Dog, Stag-Hounds, Blood Hounds, Grey-Hound and Otter-Hound, Horses, including Dark colored, Bay Roan, Grey Cart-Horse, Chestnut Mare and Foal, Bulls, Cows and Calf, White and Dark Faced Sheep, a Ram and Lamb, Donkey and Foal. A delightful book for those wanting to reproduce these animals by watercolor, but also for those appreciating beautiful renditions of these animals. The embossed oval stamp on the title page, "Department of Science and Art Reward" refers to the British Governmental body which existed from 1853 to 1899, and promoted education in art, science, technology and design in Britain and Ireland. Wikipedia.