A Collection of Art Instruction, Landscape Painting, and Natural History Volumes (DJ)

An assortment of hardcover and softcover volumes primarily focused on art technique, landscape painting, and natural history illustration. Notable titles include Painting with David Shepherd: His Unique Studio Secrets Revealed; Hardy Landscapes and Beningfield’s English Landscape by Gordon Beningfield; Portrait of a Country Artist: C.F. Tunnicliffe RA 1901-1979 by Ian Niall; and The Drawing Book by Jeffery Camp with a foreword by David Hockney. The group also features The Magic of Watercolour by James Fletcher-Watson with a foreword by Sir Hugh Casson; Thorburn’s Birds; An Introduction to Painting Landscapes; The Complete Painting Course by Hazel Harrison and Alfred Daniels; Learn to Paint by Alwyn Crawshaw, Peter John Garrard, and John Blockley; and Lancashire of One Hundred Years Ago by John Hudson. Several volumes are large-format quartos or folios, with many retaining original pictorial dust jackets over cloth boards, while others are presented in oversized pictorial wrappers. The volumes are profusely illustrated throughout with colour and monochrome plates, sketches, and instructional diagrams.