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224 pages. "We offer this summary of the rules of composition as applied to picture making, hoping that the artist will use them both to give vsion to the too practical and to give practicability to the too visionary." - from Preface. Chapters as follows: Balance; Language of Lines; Language of Forms; Chiaroscuro, Tone and Value; What to do and Not to do; Dynamic Symmetry; Linear Perspective; Aerial Perspective; Application to Pictures; Principality; Tricks and Psychology; Suggestion and Imagination; Figures; Titles; Trimming; Handwork; Composition in Colour; Judging your own Pictures; Take it Easy; Emancipating the Rules of Composition; Pictures. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear to red cloth-covered boards. Binding sound. Minor undulations to bottom corner of opening leaves. Nice copy in very rough dust jacket. Book