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Author additional ss Laurie, Robert, 1755-1836, engraver.

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1. The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

The draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on seventy-two copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice / by the author of The artist's assistant.

Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: [2], 16 p., [72] leaves of plates (one folded) : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. An essay on the means of lessening the effects of fire on the human body / by James Earle, Esq; F.R.S. Surgeon extraordinary to the King and to His Majesty's Household, and Senior Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

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Creator:: Earle, James, Sir, 1755–1817
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: [4], 44, [2] p. [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The panorama of science and art : embracing the sciences of aerostation, agriculture and gardening, architecture, astronomy ... : the arts of building, brewing, bleaching, clockwork ... : the methods of working in wood and metal, applicable in annealing, boring and drilling, filding, grinding ... : and a miscellaneous selection of interesting and useful processes and experiments / by James Smith ; with forty-nine illustrative engravings by eminent artists ; in two volumes.

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Creator:: Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759–1828
Date:: [1815?]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts