Bryant's+Publishing

Quick Publishing Facts At the bottom of each page was the signature of the artist, Joshua Bryant, as well as the publishing date and publisher, R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts. The first third of the book was published June 1, 1807. The following pages where published in the next months of 1807 in increments of six pages until January, when the publishing date changed to 1808. I thought the month-by-month publication of the book meant it came from the Ackermann Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics magazine. Each month was another fragment of the magazine and would eventually develop into the entirety of Bryant’s Progressive Lessons in Landscape. Monthly installments do make up Bryant’s Progressive Lessons in Landscape, however, it was not published in the Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics magazine.
 * Rudolf Ackermann Publishing House
 * 1807-1808
 * London
 * Repository of Arts Shop No. 101 Strand Beaufort Buildings
 * 1 edition
 * 4 additional copies

According to the Goucher College archives, the Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics magazine started in 1809. Bryant’s Progressive Lessons in Landscape’s 1807 publishing pre-dates the magazine. Moreover, Goucher College’s Book Conservator, Melissa Straw, said the college’s copy of the book is too large. The Ackermann Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics magazines were significantly smaller than the 34 X 47 cm size of Bryant’s Progressive Lessons in Landscape. Straw said the book was probably fathered in R. or Rudolf Ackermann’s printing house, but was not one of Ackermann’s famous magazines (Straw 2012). Like anything with a life Bryant’s Progressive Lessons in Landscape was created somewhere. The place from which Bryant’s Progressive Lessons in Landscape came just happened to be from one of the most influential printers in 19th century England, Rudolf Ackermann.

Out of the manuals printed there is no mention of //Bryant's Progressive Lessons in Landscape//; this could be due to the rarity of the book. According to Goucher’s records, Joshua Bryant//,// was the author of //Ackermann's New Drawing Book of Light and Shadow, in Imitation of India Ink// (1809-12). Some of the manuals he printed were //Ackermann's New Drawing Book of Light and Shadow, in Imitation of India Ink// (1809-12); //Rudiments of Landscape: In Progressive Studies// (1813); //The First Principles of Landscape Drawing// (1813); etc. (Burwick 16). //Bryant’s Progressive Lessons in Landscape// is not mentioned in Burwick’s encyclopedia. That does not mean that the book was not conceived from Ackermann and Bryant’s working relationship in the Ackermann School. The book was published shortly after Ackermann closed his drawing school in 1806. The school’s closing was to make space for Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts Shop (Burwick 15).



@R. Ackermann Introduction