How to Paint. The Complete Compendium of the Art...

Stated eighth edition. Cloth 12mo, 126pp + (20)p publisher's catalog, including Phrenological titles. Appropriately paint-stained covers heavily rub-worn at the extremities with shallow loss at the spine ends. "Prairie Farmer" ticket to front pastedown, PO signature to ffep, p14 creased at the edge; overall a pleasingly/vigorously purpose-used example. Gardner authored the highly successful Carriage Painters' Manual. He writes in the introduction about the origin of the present volume as a response to parents inquiring about training their boys in painting and ornamental arts, addressing the myth and fall of the apprenticeship system.