Educational and Industrial Drawing: Primary Freehand Series, No. 4 (with student work)

Oblong softcover, 7.5 x 8.75 inches, 16pp. Good with soil and wear commensurate with age and use. Prescriptive exercises completed up to page 10 (last 6 pages intended for self-directed work, largely blank). Strips of colored paper (popularly produced by Milton Bradley), tipped to the first page with names marked on several versos. Amidst the drawing book frenzy of the late nineteenth century, Langdon Shook Thompson presented his Educational and Industrial System of Drawing as an experienced guide through others' methodologies, not as an original invention of his own. He published a dizzying number of series and variations: the Common School Course consisted of four drawing books and a manual for primary grades, plus three "Model and Object Drawing" books and a manual. Advanced courses were offered in Manual Training (2 manuals), Advanced Free Hand (4 drawing books), Aesthetic (6 drawing books and a manual), and Mechanical (6 drawing books and a manual). With some mix-and-match element