G.F. Phillips Lot n° 12

Phillips (G.F.) Principles of Effect and Colour as applicable to Landscape Painting, first edition, hand-coloured plate of colour wheel and 8 aquatint plates, 6 hand-coloured, paper guards, title lightly spotted but plates clean and bright, original cloth, label to upper cover, rebacked preserving old spine, rubbed and faded, spine a little worn, oblong folio, [cf.Abbey, Llife 167, third edition of 1840], F.G.Harding, 1833. ⁂ Rare first edition of this artist's manual, with attractive plates. Library Hub records only one copy, in the British Library, and the National Art Library at the V & A contains only a later edition. The last copy sold at auction appears to have been in 1961.