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1. Principles of perspective : with a sketch of some Irish antiquities : and a few thoughts on rustic embellishment and the picturesque : as connected, and contrasted, with each other.

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Date:
1812
Physical Description:
[27], 24-30 pages, [1], 9 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 x 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Perspective made easie, or, The art of representing all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all scituations : containing the elements of designing and painting : illustrated with above fifty figures in copper / written originally in French by Bernard Lamy, Priest of the Oratory, and faithfully translated into English, by an officer of Her Majesties Ordnance.

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Creator:
Lamy, Bernard, 1640–1715
Date:
MDCCX [1710]
Physical Description:
[16], 174, [8] p., 31 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding ; formerly teacher of landscape painting in the family of His Late Majesty the King of the French.

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Creator:
Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:
[1856]
Physical Description:
54 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. An introduction to perspective, adapted to the capacities of youth, in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues, between the author's children : accompanied with illustrative plates, appropriate diagrams, and a sufficiency of practical geometry : to which is added, A compendium of genuine instruction in the art of drawing and painting : the whole comprising a body of information, adapted equally to the simplicity of youth, and to mental maturity ... / by Mr. Hayter ...

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Creator:
Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:
1813
Physical Description:
viii, 168 p., [1], XIV leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Perspective explained in a series of dialogues between the author's children George, Ann, Eliza and John.

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Creator:
Hayter, Charles, 1761–1835
Date:
circa 1820
Physical Description:
1 v. (120 p.) : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. An essay on mechanical drawing : comprising an elementary course of practice in the perspective delineation of machinery / illustrated in numerous plates by Charles Blunt.

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Creator:
Blunt, Charles
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
[4], 91, [1] p., [63] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 x 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. A familiar treatise on perspective : designed for ladies, and those who are unacquainted with the principles of optics and geometry : whereby, in a few days, sufficient of this useful science may be learned, to enable any person, accumstomed to the use of the pencil, to draw landscapes, and the simpler objects of art : with perspective accuracy / by W. Daniel.

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Creator:
Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:
1807
Physical Description:
43, [1] p., 14 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A familiar treatise on perspective, designed for ladies, and those who are unacquainted with the principles of optics and geometry ... By W. Daniel.

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Creator:
Daniell, William, 1769–1837
Date:
1810
Physical Description:
46 p. 16 plates. 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The rudiments of practical perspective : in which the representation of objects is described by two easy methods, one depending onthe plan of the object, the other on its dimensions and position ... / by Peter Nicholson ... ; illustrated by 38 plates ; elegantly engraved by Lowry.

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Creator:
Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:
1822
Physical Description:
xviii, 122 p., [38] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. An easy and familiar treatise on the art of drawing in perspective : calculated for young students, and to be acquired without a tutor / by Elias Taylor.

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Creator:
Taylor, Elias
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
viii, 74, [2] p., 25 leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Progressive fragments : drawn and etched in a broad and simple manner : with a comprehensive explanation of the principles of perspective for the use of young students in landscape-drawing / by Samuel Prout.

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Creator:
Prout, Samuel, 1783–1852
Date:
1817
Physical Description:
[2], 2 p., 24 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. How to sketch from nature, or, Perspective and its application / by Newton Fielding.

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Creator:
Fielding, Newton Limbird Smith, 1799–1856
Date:
[1856]
Physical Description:
54 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts