Firstly, this book was originally published over a hundred years ago. Although it has some updating it still has that old fashioned feel and style.
Still it makes some interesting points on using pen and ink. If I was to buy this I would want an original copy bought from a antiquarian book seller. I see no point in having an old book in a new binding?

This book is a release with additional information and artwork. The first edition was published in 1913. The majority of the artwork is all ink work generally done with pens or dipped ink.

I really enjoyed reading about the process and looking at the art and reading about this older style of creativity. If you love learning about older original art forms pick this one up its very interesting.

I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review.

This book is an expanded version of the original book published in 1913 by James Hall, of which very little remained intact. This revised edition of Pen and Ink is a gem, it steps through the varying degrees of adding lines and marks to drawing. The tools may change but the processes are similar.
Good book for anyone interested in drawing.

"With pen and ink" offers a rather limited introduction to the subject. 100 years are too much, not only the materials have been evolving tremendously (the artwork in the book were done with dip pens or a brush, nothing more) but also the method of art intruction has been changed a lot. In those times there was a lot of text in the instructional books, written rather formally (for example " ... the student should proceed..."), no real photos, only illustrations, no tutorials. There are chapters dedicated to "problems" on how to draw certain subjects. It might be a curiosity for those interested in old style art instructional books, but I'd not recommend it those who want to learn the techniques, there are much more enjoyable modern intructional books for that.
I appreciate the editor's intention to recover classics but in art motivation is very important and I think this book simply does not offer it.