The practice of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor: in a series of examples, from the most simple and easy, to the most complicated, and difficult cases ... Written many years since, but now first pub., by Joseph Highmore.

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Highmore, Joseph, 1692-1780, The practice of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor, 1763

Creator:: Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780
Title(s):: The practice of perspective, on the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor: in a series of examples, from the most simple and easy, to the most complicated, and difficult cases ... Written many years since, but now first pub., by Joseph Highmore.
Published/Created:: London, Printed for A. Millar, and J. Nourse, 1763.
Physical Description:: xvi, 129, [1] p. diagrs. on 50 fold. pl. 27 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC749 H5 1763
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/581828
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Plates by James Basire.
Bound with: A critical examination of those two paintings on the cieling [sic] of the banqueting-house at Whitehall / Joseph Highmore. London, 1754.
Subject Terms:: Engraving -- Specimens -- 1763.
Millar, A. -- Publisher.
Nourse, J. -- Publisher.
Perspective -- Early works to 1800.
Society of Writers to H.M. Signet (Great Britain) -- Binding.
Contributors:: Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731.
Basire, James, 1730-1802, ill.
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