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The History of Drawing and Art
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127 Total Vintage Books
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Vintage Books on all Drawing and Drafting related topics, such as:


Sketching or drawing all sorts of things such as humans, animals, art, scenery, and other objects.  Also includes early drafting books and vintage how to manuals for expert draftsmen.  This collection covers both artistic and technical drawing styles, for both commercial and artistic use, classic instruction, as well as history and art.
 

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This is a collection of 127 books and publications that cover the history of drawing in all its forms, whether it be artistic or technical.  The subject matter is very diverse.  Whether you are a technical drafter or an artist who is into pencil sketching, the vintage subject matter here will be of interest to you.  The titles included are as follows:
 

127 TITLES IN ALL ON THIS FABULOUS DVD, ALL IN PDF FORMAT!

A Complete and Comprehensive Treatise on the Art of Crayon Portraiture, in Black and White, 1884, by J.B. Crocker, 96 pages
A First Year in Drawing, 1894, by Henry T. Bailey, 104 pages
A Guide to Figure Drawing, 1853, by G. E. Hicks, 78 pages
A Guide to Landscape Drawing in Pencil and Chalk, 1848,  by George Harley, 90 pages
A Manual of Drafting Instruments and Operations, 1872, by S. Edward Warren, 138 pages
A Manual of Elementary Geometrical Drawing, Involving Three Dimensions, 1865, by S. Edward Warren, 150 pages
A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen, 1911, by Thomas E. French, 310 pages
A Manual of Machine Drawing and Design, 1918, by David Allan Low and Alfred William Bevis, 417 pages
A Manual of Mechanical Drawing, 1914, by John Handsley Dales, 217 pages
A Measuring Scale for Free-hand Drawing, 1922, by Linus Ward Kline, 79 pages
A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, 1849, by William Minifie, 248 pages
A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, 1871, by William Minifie, 292 pages
A Text Book of Mechanical Drawing, 1889, by Gardner C. Anthony, 96 pages
A Text-book of Mechanical Drawing and Elementary Machine Design, 1900, by John S. Reid, 456 pages
A Theory of Pure Design; Harmony, Balance, Rhythm, 1907, by Denman W. Ross, 228 pages
An Elementary Course in Free-hand Geometrical Drawing, 1873, by Edward S. Warden, 74 pages
Appleton's Cyclopædia of Drawing, 1857, by W.E. Worthen, 635 pages
Architectural Drawing and Draughtsmen, 1912, by Reginald Blomfield, 211 pages
Architectural Drawing for Mechanics, 1897, by I.P Hicks. 111 pages
Architectural Drawing, 1922, by Wooster Bard Field, 180 pages
Art Recreations, Being a Complete Guide to Pencil Drawing, Oil Painting, Moss Work, Paper, 1863, by Madame L.B. Urbino, 333 pages
Art Recreations, Being a Complete Guide to Pencil Drawing, Oil Painting, Moss Work, Paper, 1871, by Madame L.B. Urbino, 353 pages
Art Recreations, Being a Complete Guide to Pencil Drawing, Oil Painting, Moss Work, Paper, 1873, by Madame L.B. Urbino, 351 pages
Art Recreations, A Guide to Decorative Art, c1884, by Marion Kemble, 471 pages
Augsburgs Drawing Book Volume 1, 1901, by D.R. Augsburg, 195 pages
Augsburgs Drawing Book Volume 2, 1901, by D.R. Augsburg, 167 pages
Black Board Drawing, 1896, by M. Swannell, 95 pages
Blackboard Drawing, A Monograph, 1903, by Frederick Whitney, 39 pages
Blackboard Sketching, 1908, by Frederick Whitney, 75 pages
Blueprint Reading, A Practical Manual of Instruction in Blueprint Reading, 1919, by Howard P. Fairfield, 302 pages
Brush Drawing, A Handbook for Teachers and Students, 1901, by J.W. Nicol, 180 pages
Building Plans and How to Draw Them, 1909, by I.P Hicks, 87 pages
Building Plans and How to Draw Them; A Simple Series of Practical Lessons on Architectural Drawing, Showing Every Step Necessary, 1909, by I.P. Hicks, 87 pages
Constructive Anatomy, 1920, by George Bridgman, 217 pages
Constructive Drawing, A Textbook for Home Instruction, High Schools, Manual Training Schools, Technical Schools and Universities, 1908, by Herman Hanstein, 84 pages
Constructive Drawing, A Textbook for Home Instruction, High Schools, Manual Training Schools, Technical Schools and Universities, 1904, by Herman Hanstein, 84 pages
Crayon Portraiture, Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver, and Bromide Enlargements, 1892, by J.A. Barhydt, 154 pages
Drafting Room Methods, Standards and Forms, A Reference Book for Engineering Offices and Draftsmen, 1918, by Charles D. Collin, 162 pages
Drawing & Engraving, a Brief Exposition of Technical Principles & Practices, 1892, by Philip Hamerton, 283 pages
Drawing and Design, A Class Text-book for Beginners, 1893, by Edward R. Taylor, 134 pages
Drawing and Manual Training in Punjab Schools, 1918, by J.Y. Buchanan, 59 pages
Drawing for Beginners, 1920, by Dorothy Furniss, 275 pages
Drawing in Charcoal and Crayon for the Use of Students and Schools, 1885, by Frank Fowler, 107 pages
Drawing in the Public Schools, A Manual for Teachers, 1893, by Anson K. Cross, 125 pages
Drawing Simplified, A Text-book of Form Study and Drawing, 1892, by D.R. Augsburg, 286 pages
Drawings in Pen & Pencil, 1922, by George Sheringham, 210 pages
Easy Studies for Beginners in Drawing, of Figures, Animals, Shipping, and Landscape, 1838, by Charles Tilt, 77 pages
Elementary Drawing Simplified, A Text-book of Form Study and Drawing Designed for the Lower Grades, 1891, by D.R. Augsburg, 186 pages
Elements of Drawing and Mensuration Applied to the Mechanic Arts. a Book for the Instruction and Use of Practical Men, 1846, by Charles Davies, 251 pages
Elements of Drawing Exemplified in a Variety of Figures and Sketches of Parts of the Human Form, 1814, by H. Williams, 64 pages
Elements of Drawing, 1912, by George F. Blessing. 220 pages
Elements of Mechanical Drawing, 1906, by Alfred A. Titsworth, 150 pages
Elements of Pen-and-ink Rendering, Rendering with Pen and Brush, Elements of Water-color Rendering, Rendering in Water Color, Drawing from Nature, the American Vignola, 1921, by International Library of Technology, 594 pages
Elements of Plane and Solid Free-hand Geometrical Drawing, 1878, by S. Edward Warren, 184 pages
Engineer Draughtsmen's Work, Hints for Beginners, 1918, by A Practical Draughtsman, 160 pages
Essentials of Drafting, 1918, by Carl L. Svensen, 240 pages
Fashion Drawing and Design, a Practical Manual for Art Students and Others, 1926, by Luie Chadwick, 284 pages
Figure Drawing for Children, Papers of Special Value to All Interested in the Development of Art Among the Children, 1893, by Caroline Hunt Rimmer, 94 pages
First Book of Drawing Being Exercises for Children and Young Persons on the Slate and Black Board, 1840, by William and Robert Chambers, 208 pages
Free-hand Drawing and Designing, 1919, by Max Kushman, 68 pages
Free-hand Drawing, A Manual for Teachers and Students, 1895, by Anson Cross, 170 pages
Free-hand Drawing, Light and Shade and Free-hand Perspective, 1892, by Anson Cross, 247 pages
Geometrical Drawing and Design, 1913, by J. Humphrey Spanton, 284 pages
Geometrical Drawing, Projection Drawing, Freehand and Ornamental Drawing, Wash Work and Brush Drawing, Elementary Perspective Drawing, Architectural Drawing, 1921, by International Library of Technology, 591 pages
Guide for Drawing the Acanthus, and Every Description of Ornamental Foliage, 1886, by I. Page, 385 pages
Handbook of Drawing, 1880, by William Walker, 311 pages
Handbook of Industrial Drawing for Teachers in Common Schools, 1894, by Ida Tew, 122 pages
Hints on Drawing, 1900, by Author Unknown, 259 pages
Hints on Sketching from Nature, 1874, by N.E. Green, 112 pages
How Children Learn to Draw, 1916, by Walter Sargent and Elizabeth Miller, 284 pages
How to Draw a Map, 1879, by Alfonzo Gardiner, 21 pages
How to Draw a Straight Line; A Lecture on Linkages, 1877, by A.B. Kempe, 67 pages
Industrial Drawing, Comprising the Description and Uses of Drawing Instruments, by D.H. Mahan, 231 pages
Isometric Drawing, a Treatise on Mechanical Illustrating Dealing with Typical Constructions and Outlining; a Course in the Art, 1911, by Alpha Pierce Jamison, 88 pages
Life of Michael Angelo, Volume 1, 1896, by Herman Grimm, 666 pages
Life of Michael Angelo, Volume 2, 1896, by Herman Grimm, 664 pages
Light and Shade with Chapters on Charcoal, Pencil, and Brush Drawing, a Manual for Teachers and Students, 1901, by Anson Cross, 196 pages
Line & Form, 1914, by Walter Crane, 310 pages
Line, An Art Study, 1922, by Edmund Sullivan, 216 pages
Linear Drawing and Lettering for Beginners, 1901, by J.C.L. Fish, 102 pages
Machine Drawing and Design for Beginners, an Introductory Work for the Use of Technical Students, 1908, by Henry Spooner, 292 pages
Machine Drawing, 1917, by Ralph Hills, 112 pages
Manual Instruction, Drawing, 1896, by S. Barter, 104 pages
Mechanical Drawing, 3rd Edition, 1890, by Linus Faunce, 164 pages
Nature Drawing and Design, 1903, by Frank Steely, 68 pages
Nature Drawing from Various Points of View, 1910, by Henry Turner Bailey, 180 pages
Outline of Drawing Lessons for Grammar Grades, 1898, by Anson Cross, 176 pages
Pen Drawing an Illustrated Treatise, 1903, by Charles Maginnis, 143 pages
Pen Drawing an Illustrated Treatise, 1921, by Charles Maginnis, 144 pages
Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen, 1920, by Ioseph Pennell, 497 pages
Pen Pictures and How to Draw Them, a Practical Handbook on the Various Methods of Illustrating  in Black and White, 1895, by Eric Meade, 124 pages
Pencil Sketching from Nature, 1906, by James Parton Haney, 44 pages
Pencil Sketching, 1913, by George Koch, 70 pages
Practical Hints for Draughtsmen, 1888, by Charles William MacCord, 120 pages
Projection Drawing, 1894, by John Daniel Walters, 68 pages
Reed’s Drawing Lessons with Twenty Pages of Lithographic Engravings and Numerous Wood Cuts, 1869, by P. Fishe Reed, 91 pages
Self Instructor, the Child’s First Drawing Book, 1878, by A.H. Andrews, 35 pages
Sketching and Rendering in Pencil, 1922, by Arthur Guptill, 204 pages
Structural Drawing, 1907, by C.F. Edminster, 168 pages
Student's Manual of Fashion Drawing; Thirty Lessons with Conventional Charts, 1919, by Edith Young, 128 pages
Studies of the Human Figure, 1918, by G.M Ellwood, 195 pages
Teachers' Manual for Freehand Drawing in Intermediate Schools, 1878, by Walter Smith, 313 pages
Teachers' Manual for Freehand Drawing in Primary Schools, 1878, by Walter Smith, 198 pages
Teachers' Manual for the Prang Course in Drawing for Graded Schools, 1897, by John Clark, 259 pages
The American Drawing-book, A Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for the Professional Artist, Volume 1, 1847, by John Chapman, 64 pages
The American Drawing-book, A Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for the Professional Artist, Volume 2, 1847, by John Chapman, 63 pages
The Art of Drawing and Engraving on Wood, 1881, by G.W. Marx, 64 pages
The Art of Figure Drawing, 1852, by Charles Weigall, 92 pages
The Art of the Great Masters, 1913, by Frederic Lees, 326 pages
The Camera; Or, Art of Drawing in Water Colors, 1823, by J. Hassell, 50 pages
The Draughtsman's Handbook of Plan and Map Drawing, Including Instructions for the Preparation of Engineering, Architectural, and Mechanical Drawings, 1874, by George Andre, 246 pages
The Drawing Guide, a Manual of Instruction in Industrial Drawing, 1873, by Marcius Wilson, 235 pages
The Elements of Drawing & the Elements of Perspective, 1912, by John Ruskin, 345 pages
The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners, 1895, by John Ruskin, 420 pages
The Graphic Arts of Great Britain, Drawing, Line Engraving, Etching, Mezzotint, Aquatint, Lithography, Wood-engraving, Color-printing, 1917, by  Malcom Salaman, 184 pages
The Illustrated Architectural, Engineering, & Mechanical Drawing Book, 1856, by Robert Scott Burn, 151 pages
The Miniature Collector; a Guide for the Amateur Collector of Portrait Miniatures, 1921, by George Williamson, 394 pages
The New Augsburg's Drawing, 1912, by D.R. Augsburg, 108 pages
The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design, 1853, by William Johnson. 413 pages
The Practice & Science of Drawing, 1900, by Harold Speed, 207 pages
The Psychology of Drawing, 1916, by Fred Carleton Ayer, 206 pages
The Science and Art of Model and Object Drawing, 1883, by Lucas Baker, 111 pages
The Slade, a Collection of Drawings and Some Pictures, 1907, by John Fothergill, Editor, 225 pages
The Teaching of Drawing and Use of Blackboard Illustrations, 1872, by Walter Smith, 15 pages
The Teaching of Drawing, 1893, by I.H Morris, 282 pages
The Theory of Engineering Drawing, 1912, by Alphonse Adler, 365 pages
What to Draw and How to Draw It, 1913, by E.G. Lutz, 88 pages
 

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