Youth's Assistant: LE CLERC, Sebastien: The Youth's Assistant in Drawing, containing many specimens on an easy and familiar plan adapted to lead the pupil gradually from the first practice on parts of the human body to the drawing of the whole academy figures; to which are prefixed proper instructions to youth for their improvement and entertainment in this art; 48 (of 50) engraved plts; 4pp text, 200 x 160mm; marbled wprs ( book generally loose, crns dog-eared); Bowles & Carver n.d. (c. 1795) 10th edn corrected & improved, with additions; lacks plates 20 & 22; this is the edition held by the British Library.

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