The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours

1885. BARNARD, George. The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Water-Colours. Illustrated by a Series of Twenty-Six Drawings and Diagrams in Colour and Numerous Woodcuts. [8], 286, [2] pp. Illustrated with 26 chromolithographic plates and 69 text illustrations mainly from engravings, but including several from one-colour lithographs. Large 8vo., 262 x 175 mm, bound in the original red cloth. London & New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1885. New edition. The first edition was published in 1855. An important book for its full coverage of colour theory and painting materials, but also because of the high quality plates. Ruari McLean says, "On only one plate, no. 4, with twenty five panels showing harmonious arrangements of colour, does there appear to be any hand-colouring. Plates 22 and 23 might be sketches, or notes, by a French Impressionist, and are, in their way, among the most improbable examples of colour printing of the whole century." An unusually fine copy with the binding in fresh condition, and the interior bright, and without any of the foxing that mars most copies. Abbey Life 94 (the second edition). McLean, Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing, p. 192. The Book of Colour Concepts 516 cites first edition.