Antique 1880s CHARCOAL DRAWING Auguste Allong Art Instruction Book Frontispeice
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Title: Charcoal Drawing (Circa 1880s Antique Edition) Author: Auguste AllongéPublisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (The Riverside Press)Format: Hardcover (1876 Copyright Variant)DESCRIPTION Up for sale is a scarce genuine antique, historic early American edition of "Charcoal Drawing" by the renowned French Barbizon School artist Auguste Allongé. This classic text served as one of the definitive instructional manuals that popularized charcoal as an independent landscape medium in the late 19th century. A wonderful piece of art history for collectors of antiquarian manuals.*COLLATION & COMPLETENESS • Frontispiece: 1 Beautifully detailed, full-page woodland landscape plate.• Text: 47 pages of main instructional text.• Ads: 4 pages of publishers advertisements at the rear.• Structurally complete copy.*CONDITION DETAILS (PLEASE REVIEW PHOTOS) • Cover/Binding: Genuine antique wear. Shows distinct sun-bleaching/fading to the cloth boards and edge scuffing. Binding remains firm and intact. Notably, the gold-gilt title and author lettering on the front remain exceptionally bright and crisp!• Interior Pages: Clean text block with natural age-toning. Pages are firmly bound and display expected vintage character for a book over 140 years old.• Inscriptions: Features a neat, period previous owner's signature ("Mary E. Palmer") in vintage ink on the front blank flyleaf. • Illustrations: Complete with beautiful, full-page landscape plates cleanly bound inside, featuring Allongé's printed signatures.
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