Art Education Applied to Industry

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1877. First Edition. Octavo. . Engraved frontispiece and 4 other full page illustrations with tissue guards present, 211 pp. illustrated with several textual illustrations. This book shows the present (1877) need of art education in the United States, is meant by its application to industry; and to propose a method of instruction best adapted to people and institutions. This Includes fresco painting, monumental ornamentation, decoration of pottery, in the manufacture of bronzes and many other types of manufacture, but the term "art education" is used here in the largest sense. It means artistic and scientific instruction applied to common trades and occupations, as well as to the fine arts. Bound in brown pictorial gilt cloth accented in black, pictorial gilt spine, dark brown coated endpapers, all edges gilt, some wear through to corners, wear to spine ends and rubbing to joints. A very nice bright copy of this very scarce work without names or bookplates, internally clean and bright. (Inventory #: 023603)