A Touch of the Fine Arts: Illustrated by Twelve Plates, With Descriptions,

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Alken's Amusing Satire of Artists. (3 leaves - half title, title and preface), (12 leaves descriptive text), (1 leaf adverts), printed on recto's only, with twelve hand-coloured plates. Original dull gray boards, front cover with pink printed paper label, newly re-backed to style in red straight-grain morocco, gilt, label and edges of boards a little worn, old booksellers description tipped in at front end papers, some mild foxing, generally to versos of plates. Fine impressions of these etchings, brilliantly coloured. An excellent copy in the original boards. Chemised in a quarter red morocco slip case, small mark. Alken's amusing satire of artists, an attempt to elucidate, by graphic delineation's, a variety of terms generally and perhaps exclusively made use of by artists, amateurs, connoisseurs, virtuosos and the like. This work includes plates with such titles as An imposing effect and The subject far from good, but rich. (278*200 mm). (Tooley 58. Bobbins 611).