Marcus B. Huish — British Water-Colour Art

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated study of water-colour in Britain from English art dealer Marcus Bourne Huish. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and sixty-one colour plates. Collated complete. A detailed study of water-colour art in Britain from the first year of the reign of King Edward VII, and during the century covered by the life of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours. Exploring the infancy of water colour painting, the first societies, papers, pigments, and palettes, and much more. Written by Marcus Bourne Huish, an English barrister, writer and art dealer. Illustrated by the collection of drawings dedicated by the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours to their majesties the King and Queen at their coronation. Four leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .