8vo. viii, 117pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, 11 further engraved plates, and numerous in-text illustrations and diagrams. Without terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red calf lettering-piece, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, with light surface wear to joints and edges. Inked gift inscription to Eliza Carter, 'from her affect. brother, Frank Carter', to head of FFEP. Occasional light spotting, browning to edges of endpapers.

A study on life-drawing published by British painter Frank Howard (1805?–1866), best known as the assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence, eminent Regency portrait painter, and fourth president of the Royal Academy. Howard, an exhibitor at the British Institution, and later at the Royal Academy himself, instructs the reader on 'producing a representation of any favoured scene under the circumstances which insure agreeable impressions'.