Description: Teachers’ Manual of Free-Hand Drawing and Designing and Guide to Self-Instruction, Prepared by Walter Smith, L. Prang and Company, Boston, 1876, 156pp, hardcover, 7.5 x 10.5”, 8vo Fair condition. Wear and staining to boards. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Title in black ink on front board. Bookplate for Maurice Robert des Marais on front pastedown. No known marginalia. Toning, age-staining, and finger-staining throughout textblock. Illustrated. Please see photos. Walter Smith (1836-1886) was a British art educator and author of drawing books and books on industrial art education. Smith is known as a leading early proponent of industrial design in the United States. He was known by most for his American textbooks on art education, published in the early 1870s, which had a considerable influence on American art education. For the Massachusetts public schools, he developed an elementary curriculum of drawing, which would set the standard for art education throughout the Northeast. FORN-TUB-0048-BB-2406-JC936
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Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Walter Smith
Publisher: L. Prang and Company
Topic: Art Instruction
Subject: Reference
Original/Facsimile: Original
