Author: E. Campbell Hancock
Title: The Amateur Pottery and Glass Painter, with Directions for Gilding, Chasing, Burnishing, Bronzing and Groundlaying
Description: London, Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated first edition copy of Edward Campbell Hancock's fascinating reference work on pottery and glass painting. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. A fascinating history and guide to pottery and glass painting for the art student, professional artist, teacher or any member of the general public, with directions for 'Gilding, Chasing, Burnishing, Bronzing and Groundlaying&apos. This work is complete with three beautiful chromolithographs, facsimiles 'from the Sketch Book of N. H. J. Westlake', and numerous black and woodcuts throughout. With an appendix reprinted by the special permission of the Department of Science and Art, South Kensington. 2 pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally fairly smart, with a couple of faint marks to the front board and shelf wear to the extremities. Front hinge is starting but holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: N. H. J. Westlake. Very Good .

Keywords: Pottery Glass painting Gilding Bronzing Glass painting N. H. J. Westlake


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