Lucas' progressive drawing book, in three parts
Subtitle: Part I--The principles of drawing in pencil, Part II--Colouring and shading in india ink, Part III--A treatise on perspective
By: consisting chiefly of original views of American scenery, and embracing the latest and best improvements in the mode of instruction. ...
Publisher: Published by Fielding Lucas, Jun'r ... John D. Toy, printer.
Published: 1827
Place of publication: Baltimore [Md.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drawing; Study and teaching; Drawing books; Landscape drawing; Perspective
Other titles: Progressive drawing book.
Notes: Marbled boards, calf back and corners. Front cover has engraved label: "Progressive drawing book. Published by F. Lucas, Jr. Baltimore."

Added engraved half-title: "Progressive drawing book. ..." with hand colored aquatint by Hill, after E. Van Blon [pseud. of John Latrobe], printed by J. Grierson.

Copyright notice dated Jan. 1, fifty-first year of independence ,i.e. Jan. 1, 1827, on verso of title page. Parts II and III have special title pages, separate paging, and separate numbering of plates. Part II has copyright date as Sept. 1 of the fifty-second year of independence, i.e. Sept. 1, 1827, erroneously dated 1828 by Drepperd. Part III has added engraved half-title: "Practical perspective ..." with hand colored aquatint by J. Hill after E. Van Blon.

The 15 plates in pt.I are engraved by J. Cone; the 17 plates in pt.II are by John Hill, after E. Van Blon; the 6 plates in pt.III are by J. D. Nicholson. (Cf. Carl W. Drepperd, American drawing books, New York, 1946, p.8.)

Added t.-p., illus., in colors.
Table of contents: title: The principles of drawing in pencil.; title: Colouring and shading in India ink.; title: A treatise on perspective.