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The little folks palette : a painting book. Containing sixteen outline pictures to paint with eight coloured copies
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The Easy Painting Book
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A painting book entitled The Easy Painting Book, published by Frederick Warne & Co., London and New York. The front cover shows two children painting the title of the book on a wall. The back cover is labeled ""A Few Practical Directions for Colouring,"" which gives directions for the mixing of colors and how to paint. The book has 23 pages with images on them. The majority of the images have been painted in, using watercolor, and some of the blank pages have been used to paint original images. There are some images done in outline form with a corresponding color image to guide the student. A ""500"" is penciled in on the upper-right corner of the title page.
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Something Pretty to Paint
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One painting book entitled Something Pretty to Paint, published by Ernest Nister, London and E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, ca. 1915. This book is comprised of 10 plates, some chromolithographs and some lithographs, of perforated cards, largely containing floral images and Biblical verse. The chromolithographs are samples, and the images in outline form are intended for coloring and sending. Each leaf of the lithograph cards is perforated along the inner edge, and each leaf is comprised of four separate cards, with perforations in between. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a girl in a pink dress holding her landscape painting. The back cover is blank. "Printed in Bavaria, 399" is printed at the bottom of the front cover and of the title page. "$4805amo/10-" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
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A general catalogue of choice new illustrated works, juvenile publications, reference and useful books, issued at popular prices
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Pretty Pets Paint Box
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One boxed set of watercolor paints entitled Pretty Pets Paint Box, manufacturer unknown, ca. 1895. The set is comprised of 28 cakes of watercolor paint, two small porcelain dishes, one paintbrush, a piece of glass, and a 5-inch paper ruler. The cakes of paint are embossed with an artist's palette design, and are contained within wooden dividers in a wooden box (no lid). This box is housed within a paperboard box (which does have a lid). Mounted onto the paperboard lid is a chromolithograph image of three girls, each painting a toy elephant. "2.00" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the image on the lid.
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