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. Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris; since translated into German ... and into English ... And now, a second time, into the same language, by E. Chambers ...
Alternate Title(s):
La perspective pratique. English
Edition:
The 3d ed. To which is prefixed The theory of perspective ... by James Hodgson.
Published / Created:
London, Printed for Thomas Bowles, and John Bowles, 1743.
Physical Description:
xiii, [4], 16, 150, 150 p. ill., fold. diagrs. 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC : Sketches in margins and on front and back endpapers.
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Subject Terms:
Perspective -- Early works to 1800. | Bowles, Thomas -- Publisher. | Bowles, John -- Publisher. | Sandby, Paul -- Autograph. | Haslop, W. F. -- Autograph, 1912. | Lloyd-Jones, D. -- Bookplate.