Learning to draw, or, The story of a young designer / by Viollet-le-Duc ; translated from the French by Virginia Champlin ; illustrated by the author.

Main entry:

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879.

Title & Author:

Learning to draw, or, The story of a young designer / by Viollet-le-Duc ; translated from the French by Virginia Champlin ; illustrated by the author.

Publication:

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 182 Fifth Avenue, 1881, c1880.

Description:

v, [3], 324, [4] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Notes:
"Copyright, 1880, by G.P. Putnam's Sons"--Title page verso.
Bound in rust-colored cloth with gilt vignette on top cover and gilt letters on spine.
Includes illustrated t.p.
Publisher's advertisements after text.

Subject:

Industrial arts.
Decorative arts.
Design.
Drawing Technique.
Drawing Study and teaching.
Visual acuity.
Perspective.
Measurement.
Anatomy, Artistic.
Industrial design.
Métiers.
Arts décoratifs.
Dessin Technique.
Dessin Étude et enseignement.
Acuité visuelle.
Mesure.
Anatomie artistique.
decorative arts (discipline)
industrial design.
design (discipline)
linear perspective (technique)
perspective (technique)
measuring.

Form/genre:

Publishers' cloth bindings (Bindings) United States 19th century.
Publishers' advertisements United States 19th century.
Translations 19th century.
Presentations copies (Provenance) 19th century.

Added entries:

Champlin, Virigina, -1885, translator.
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, illustrator.
Korzenik, Diana, 1941- former owner.
Frankel, James B. Vita: Eugène Emmanuel Violet-le-Duc.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, copyright holder.
United States New York New York.

Story of a young designer

Holdings:

Location: Library main 44261
Call No.: 1690; ID:89-B3840
Status: Available

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