The practice of perspective : or, An easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art ... The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German French |
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London :
Printed for Thos. Bowles, ... and John Bowles, ...
MDCCXXXIX. [1739]
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| Edition: | The third edition. |
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| Item Description: | A Jesuit of Paris = Jean Dubreuil. Signatures: *¹ A-B⁴ A⁴ a⁴ A-Pp⁴ Qq³. Text and full page illustrations on opposite pages, numbered in duplicate; divided into 5 parts, each part with special half-title, not included in paging. Title page in red and black. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. Full title: The practice of perspective: or, An easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art. Applied and exemplified in all the variety of cases; as landskips, gardens, buildings of divers kinds, their appendages, parts, furniture, &c. With rules for the proportions, positions, &c. Figures, both in draught and relievo. Also the manner of conducting the shadows by divers luminaries; and practical methods of designing truly, without understanding any rules at all. A work highly necessary for painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, statuaries, jewellers, tapestry-workers, and others concerned in designing. The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. Illustration 149 is misprinted as illustration 159. |
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| Physical Description: | [2], xiii, [6], 150, 150 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations (some folded), plans ; 26 x 21 cm (4to) |