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(JUVENILE). (ART). BOILEAU, D. (Translator). Papyro-Plastics, or the Art of Modelling in Paper; Being an Instructive Amusement for Young Persons of Both Sexes. From the German...Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged and Improved. With Twenty-Two Plates. London: Printed for Boosey and Sons, 1825. 16mo. 13, [1], 102, [2] pp. With colored lithographic frontis. The other plates are mostly folding. Orig. plain boards, crudely rebacked (coming loose); circular printed label. $450.00

 

The lithograph, by Ingrey and Medeley, was not colored in the first edition, and there are more plates here, as well. The coloring is done for the instruction of the students, as a guide.