The isn educational book about how to draw the natural way, there are illustrations in here. the author of this book was Kimon Nicolaides, died in 1938, the first draft of this book had been complete for 2 yrs,he was reluctant to put it into final form, he was constantly developing methods of art teaching. The history of the author is very interesting, a good book for the artist in your family. The paper sleeve is a bit worn, but the book itself is in excellent condition.