GUEST, T.R. (Thomas Robert)

A New Pocket Sketch Book, containing an easy method of drawing landscape, figures, cattle, &c. from nature. The General Principles of Perspective . . . The Theory and Use of Colours, in water and oil: with . . . rules for tinting, varnishing, &c.

      Printed for the author, Salisbury 1807 - First Edition. 8, 39pp., roan backed marbled boards, oval printed label. Lacks lower board, later leaves a bit dog-eared and one blank corner of last leaf slightly defective, otherwise a good copy; signed at end of preface by the author and the imprint amended in his autograph. The format is notable: the upper board has a hinged cut-out centre and the front end-papers consist of two plates, the second being an empty board-mounted frame with calibrated borders; their use as an aid to proper delineation is explained in the first section. The plates in the body of the book are numbered, confusingly, 2-8, but all the 'Nine Explanatory Etchings' called for on the title-page are in fact present. Of the five copies located by COPAC only two give details of the plates and both of these have seven - a rebound copy would necessarily lack the first two. No further copies in NSTC or OCLC. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]