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Carington Bowles

(Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793)

• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: Bowles's Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of Beautiful Flowers, Regularly Disposed in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours With Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature (London: Carington Bowles, 1777) (page images at Wisconsin)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: The Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of the Most Beautiful Flowers Regularly Dispos'd in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours, with Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature, Being a New Work Intended for the Use and Amusement of Gentlemen and Ladies Delighting in That Art (London: Printed for R. Sayer et al., ca. 1770)
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• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: Art of painting in water-colours, etc. exemplified in landscapes, flowers, etc. (R.H. Laurie, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: The artists assistant in drawing, perspective, etching, engraving, mezzotinto-scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and sattins. The art of jappaning, &c. Containing the easiest and most comprehensive rules for the attainment of those truly useful and polite arts, methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners. : Illustrated with suitable examples engraved on copper. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Benjamin Johnson, no 147, for Benjamin Davies, no 68, Market-Street., M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: The artist's assistant in drawing, perspective, etching in copper and steel, engraving, metzotinto scraping, painting on glass, in crayons, in water-colours, and on silks and satins : containing the easiest and most comprehensive rules for the attainment of those truly useful and polite arts : methodically digested, and adapted to the capacities of young beginners : illustrated with suitable examples, engraved on copper. (R.H. Laurie, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: The artist's assistant : or, School of science : being an introduction to painting in oil, water, and crayons, with biographical accounts of some of the principal artists, the arts of drawing, designing, colouring, and engraving in all its different modes, on copper and wood, of enamelling, gilding on metal, wood, glass, and leather, japanning, dying, casting, &c. with a great variety of miscellaneous information, relative to arts and manufactories. (T. Ostell, 1807) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: Bowles's New London guide, and hackney-coach directory: being an alphabetical index to all the streets, squares, lanes, courts ... churches, chapels ... villages, hamlets, hospitals, and public buildings ... within five miles of the metropolis. With the fares of hackney-coaches ... and rates of watermen ... (Printed for the proprietor Carrington Bowles, 1786), also by Captain Tottenham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: The draughtman's assistant; or, Drawing made easy. Wherein the principles of the art are laid down in a familiar manner in ten lessons ... With an introductory treatise on the utility of the art; and an appendix, containing observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice. (Printed for and sold by T. Kitchin, 1772) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: Drawing made easy (Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map and print-sellers, (No. 53) Fleet-street, 1794), also by John Bennett and Robert Sayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: Easy and familiar method for the improvement of youth in the practice of that useful art (Printed for John Bowles, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, and Carington Bowles, in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1764), also by Gérard de Lairesse, Antoine Watteau, François Vivarès, Carle Vanloo, Paul van Somer, Henry Roberts, Charles Joseph Natoire, Wenceslaus Hollar, Sebastian Franck, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, John Bowles, and François Boucher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: New and complete book of cyphers (Printed for and sold by Carington Bowles ..., 1777), also by John Lockington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793: Polite recreation in drawing. (Printed and sold by the proprietor Carington Bowles ..., 1779) (page images at HathiTrust)

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