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001 $ 03/7233
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220113162641.4
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 0 # $a Amateur
245 1 0 $a Studies Of Anatomy and Proportion, For The Use Of Artists. By An Amateur
260 # # $b Published by Alexr. Hill, 50. Princes Street, $a Edinburgh; $b And Ackermann & Co Strand, $a London. $c [ca. 1833]
300 # # $a Engr. t.-pl., add. engr. t.-pl., 15 pl.
508 # # $a An illegible signature ['T.f'.?] seems to be carried by plates 2-7 and 12. No others are signed by draughtsman or engraver.

The title-plate and most numbered plates are signed as lithographed by Forrester and Nichol.

Most carry the publisher's imprint of Alexr. Hill, Edinburgh.
510 0 # $a M. Twyman, Rudolf Ackermann and lithography (1983).
520 2 # $a A slightly variant title occurs on the added engraved title-plate: 'Studies of Anatomy & Proportion Which it is hoped may be found useful to Artists Presented to St Luke's Club By An Amateur'.

The numbered plates show: the human body (pl. 1-11); the body of the horse (pl. 12-15). Each carries also a letter-press explanation.
561 # # $a Presented in 1833. The title-plate is inscribed in ink, 'To the Royal Academy With the respectful Comps. of the Publisher 29 June 1833 Edinburgh'.
563 # # $a 19th-century red cloth-covered boards, upper cover carrying pasted-on title-plate, reading 'Studies Of Anatomy & Proportion, For the use of Artists. - Price Fifteen Shillings - Edinburgh Alexander Hill, Bookseller, Printseller & Colourman, to the Scottish Academy of Painting &c., 50, Princes Street.'
653 # # $a Anatomy
655 # 4 $a Manuals - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Lithographs - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Hill, Alexander $e publisher $e previous owner $e donor
700 1 # $a Forrester $e lithographer
700 1 # $a Nichol $e lithographer
710 2 # $a Ackermann and Company (London) $e publisher
710 2 # $a Forrester and Nichol (Edinburgh) $e lithographer