The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00AVFOMOO |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 398 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Very, very poor printing - a bad copy of the original" according to mollydog8. I am so disappointed with the quality of this book that I am returning it. I actually paid more for this edition because the cover looks so nice that I thought it might even be a modern type-set edition. Instead, it's an extraordinarily bad copy of the original. The illustrations are grayed out, and the bottoms of many pages are simply unreadable -- most of the characters have disappeared from the middle of the bottom two lines. This is not really even a book. It looks like their laser printer ran of toner. Amazon should be ashamed of itself.The "publisher" says its reprint is of an older book and may contain errors, etc. I just