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Order Nr. 94205 BOOKS ON ART IN EARLY AMERICA: BOOKS ON ART, AESTHETICS AND INSTRUCTION AVAILABLE...

BOOKS ON ART IN EARLY AMERICA: BOOKS ON ART, AESTHETICS AND INSTRUCTION AVAILABLE IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES THROUGH 1815.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2007. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 292 pages. First Edition. An expanded version of two of the author's previous publications, this bibliography covers a broad range of books on art in early America, including not only art treatises and instruction manuals but all books related to drawing, painting, engraving, sculpture, artist biography and the history of art. The bibliography covers art books up to 1815, the year that..... READ MORE

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Preface...................................................................vi
Introduction...............................................................1
Checklist..................................................................8
Appendix A: Books by Date of First Catalogue Reference...................195
Appendix B: Books in Order of Number of Catalogue References.............205
Appendix C: Libraries and Booksellers in Alphabetical Order with 
            Their Earliest Catalogue Reference...........................213
Appendix D: Libraries and Booksellers in Order of the 
            Size of Their Collections....................................249
Appendix E: Books on Art Read by Eighteenth-Century American Artists.....255
Bibliography.............................................................260
Index by Checklist Number................................................263