Chapman's American Drawing-Book, 3 issues: No. I Primary, No. II Elementary, No. IV Sketching and Studying from Nature

"One of the first, if not the first, real drawing manual to include instructions (Nietz, 'Old Textbooks' 334-335) First editions of Part I: Primary and Part II: Elementary single issues, in Good condition with the spines mostly perished and bindings on the looser side. Part IV: Sketching and Studying from Nature which has the correct contents [169]-216pp, but is supplied with the wraps for Part III (now detached). All volumes have mild foxing and fingersoil, overall quite bright and pleasant. The refrain of Chapman's series, “Anyone who can learn to write can learn to draw” resounded in American schools, and within a year of its initial publication in parts, numbers 1-3 were collected into a single 168-page volume. Part IV provides more complex instruction than was called for in the typical classroom. It was not included in the bound Chapman's American Drawing Book until the expanded 1858 edition. OCLC locates 1 copy of the single Part IV (American Antiquarian Society), dated 1857. Cha