Prout, Samuel Rudiments of Landscape: in progressive studies. L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh for...
Prout, Samuel Rudiments of Landscape: in progressive studies. L. Harrison and J.C. Leigh for Ackermann, 1814. Oblong 4to, recent full red morocco, gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in compartments, lettered directly in two and at foot with date and ruled in gilt, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, t.e.g.; 64 plates being 24 soft-ground etchings, 24 uncoloured aquatints and 16 hand-coloured soft-ground etchings with aquatint. First ed., second issue. One of Prout's earliest and rarest publications but also his most substantial. It was first published in 1813 and re-issued with a cancel title-page as here, the plates are dated 1813-14. Previous copies at auction have tended to be defective or made-up, so a complete copy is rare. Sold with idem Elementary Drawing Book, c.1850, org. cloth; 24 plates and Hints on Light and Shadow, 1848, org. cloth (rebacked), 22 plates. Second ed.