Orientation to Drawing & Painting - Robert He Orientation to Drawing & Painting by Robert Henkes. The book is in excellent condition with a minor amount of shelf wear. The DJ is tatty. Published in 1965 by the International Textbook Company.

 

Early American Decoration by Edith S. Brazer Monumental work by Edith Stevens Brazer on early American decoration of furniture, tin ware, Japanning, restoration and more. Published by Pond-Ekberg Company, this book is the 3rd edition released after her death. 261 pp, fully illustrated.

It covers her life's work of uncovering the secrets and methods employed by the fine artists and craftsmen of yesteryear, long extinct and unknown to modern practitioners. Exact materials and designs are disclosed and the methods described with painstaking precision - stenciling, brush-stroke painting, free- hand bronze painting, gold leafing, floating color techniques, japanning and how each of the methods is employed in decorating various articles to be restored or painted..

The book is in good condition - light wear to the binding, slightly loose binding, some foxing but the pages are clean and all plates are intact. Sans DJ.

 

Early American Crafts by Roberta Raffaelli From the Creative Library, published 1974, 288pp. Book is in very good+ condition with a slightly tatty DJ. This book is illustrated in both color and black and white photography and drawings. It contains 45 original projects.
 

Calligraphy Work Book by George E. Thomspn Calligraphy Work Book by George E. Thomspn, published by Sterling Publishing Co, 1985, 160pp. Book is in good+ condition with minor wear to the cover edges.