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Water-colour guidance for the student, the amateur and the occasional colourist / by J. Hullah Brown ; with twenty-four coloured and eighty-nine diagrams

Description: This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.
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The castles of Italy / by C.T.G. Formilli ; with twenty-four plates in colour by the author

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This collection contains nearly 600 monographs published by the British publishing firm A & C Black from the late 1800s through the 1950s (bulk 1901-1936). Many of the volumes were published as part of the firm's successful "Colour Books" series and contain color plates and pictorial cloth bindings. The titles in the collection cover a variety of subjects including travel in Great Britain and abroad, antiquities, art, history of various civilizations, social life and customs of various cultures, natural history, literary classics and other literature (especially juvenile), gardening, military art and science, recreation, and transportation. Many of the firm's early 20th century series are represented by items in the collection, including the 20 shilling series; 7s 6d series; Artist's sketch book series; the "Peeps" series including Peeps at Many Lands; Beautiful Britain; Black's Popular Series of Colour Books; and Black's Water-Colour series. The collection also includes two non-A & C Black imprints by William Collins Sons and Co. and J.M. Dent.

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The landscapes of Britain / by Stephen Bone ; with twenty-four plates in colour from the author's paintings

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Sugar / by Edith A. Browne ; containing twenty-four pages of illustrations from photographs

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The Norwegian Fjords / painted and described by A. Heaton Cooper ; with twenty-four full-page illustrations in colour

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Peeps at the art of the potter / by Harry Barnard ; with twenty full-page illustrations, four of them in colour

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Albion: an artist's Britain / by Stephen Bone ; with twenty-four plates in colour from the author's paintings

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Water-colour guidance for the student, the amateur and the occasional colourist / by J. Hullah Brown ; with twenty-four coloured and eighty-nine diagrams

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The castles of Italy / by C.T.G. Formilli ; with twenty-four plates in colour by the author

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