Ex art school library book with usual marks and stamps. No creasing to covers, softened spine. Clean tight pages with gilt embossed deep brown buckram boards, old (paper) tape marks, very sunned faded spine, some loss to spine ends, slight loosening of board hinges and rubbing to corners. 146pp.

A handbook of 'colours, their permanent, or fugitive qualities, and the vehicles proper to employ, with an appendix giving permanent hues and tints.' 'Also short remarks on the practice of painting in oil and water colours'. Coloured tissue-guarded frontispiece.