The Art of Painting in Oil, and in Fresco: Being a History of the Various Processes and Materials Employed, from Its Discovery, By Hubert and John Van Eyck, to the Present Time; Translated from the Original French Treatise of M. J. F. L. Mérimée,.. with Original Observations ... by W. B. Sarsfield Taylor ....
London: Whittaker & Co., 1839. First edition in English. Hardcover. 8vo. xliv, 371 pp. Original blue-green T-grain cloth; title in gilt on spine, and the boards blocked with a design in blind; yellow coated endpapers. With two hand-colored plates, the first, the frontispiece of English Chromatic Scale (Moses Harris's colour-wheel)..... More