Bruxelles: Vromant & Co, 1926. First and only edition of a rare drawing manual by Belgium artist Germaine Hageman ((1897-1985) daughter of the painter Maurice Hagemans. No. 196 of 525 total copies, this on papier d’Arches. All the plates were subsequently destroyed. Hagemans gained notice as an artist for her very sensitive drawings and paintings of animals and landscapes; she also did small book covers, many featuring animals. Here she develops a drawing book based upon her exchanges with a small boy named Boby who has been constrained in his approach to drawing at school. The result is an album of free form and expressive images of animals in natural positions, people in the street, etc. Possibly the rodeo horse who appears on the cover as well as in the album was a request from Boby. We have found one copy in OCLC in Belgium, but no copy in the printed version of the Cotsen Collection. Ref. 17025 Quarto (28 x 22.5 cm); profusely illustrated from drawings reproduced in black and white and in sanguine.