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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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1762
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Books
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18th century
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drawing book
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Barrett, -- Autograph, 1811.
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Engraving -- Specimens -- 1766.
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Gapper, Richard Colston -- Autograph.
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Sayer, R. -- Publisher.
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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Stevens, H., engraver.
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The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes .../ collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.
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1766
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8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
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Rare Books and Manuscripts