COX, David. A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: from the first rudiments to the finished picture: with examples in outline, effect, and colouring. oblong folio. Printed for and published by S. and J. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, Rathbone Place; and sold by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Sherwood, Neely, and Jones; and Gale and Curtis, Paternoster-Row; and by all Booksellers in Town and Country. 1813-1814. First edition, second issue. Title, dedication, advertisement leaf, 5-32 descriptive pages of text and illustrated with 24 lithograph plates, 16 sepia aquatint plates and 16 hand coloured aquatint plates- some of the latter on grey paper as issued. Paper watermarked 1812. Handsomely leather bound in half period calf over marbled boards with the original ornate leather lettering label on the upper board. Ownership name of James Gibson 1829 on the front end paper. A chip to the outer corner of one sepia plate and some outer marginal discolouration but a very good copy, and certainly one of the best examples we have sold. The last copy we sold was in 2002.