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Subject Terms Perspective -- Early works to 1800.

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1. A critical examination of those two paintings on the cieling [sic] of the banqueting-house at Whitehall : in which architecture is introduced, so far as relates to the perspective : together with the discussion of a question, which has been the subject of debate among painters ...

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Creator:
Highmore, Joseph, 1692–1780
Date:
1754
Physical Description:
[4], viii, 15 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A treatise of perspective, demonstrative and practical : illustrated with copper cutts / by Humphrey Ditton ....

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Creator:
Ditton, Humphry, 1675–1715
Date:
1712
Physical Description:
[4], xvi, 173 p., 6 leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. La perspective pratique de l'architecture, contenant par leçons une maniere nouvelle, courte et aisée pour representer en perspective les ordinances d'architecture et les places fortifiées. Ouvrage tres utile aux peintres, architectes, ingenieurs, et autres desinateurs. Par Louis Bretez.

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Creator:
Bretez, Louis, d. 1738
Date:
1706
Physical Description:
[10] p. front., 52 plates. 44 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Linear perspective: or, A new method of representing justly all manner of objects as they appear to the eye in all situations. A work necessary for painters, architects, &c. to judge of, and regulate designs by. By Brook Taylor.

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Creator:
Taylor, Brook, 1685–1731
Date:
1715
Physical Description:
2 p.., 42 p. 18 plates. 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. New principles of linear perspective, or, The art of designing on a plane, the representations of all sorts of objects : in a more general and simple method than has been hitherto done / by Brook Taylor ... ; revised and corrected by John Colson ...

New principles of linear perspective, or, The art of designing on a plane, the representations of all sorts of objects : in a more general and simple method than has been hitherto done / by Brook Taylor ... ; revised and corrected by John Colson ...
Creator:
Taylor, Brook, 1685–1731
Date:
1749
Physical Description:
x, [11]-80 p., [13] leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Rules and examples of perspective, proper for painters and architects, etc. : in English and Latin ... / by ... Andrea Pozzo ; engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the explanatory discourses: printed from copper-plates on ye best paper, by John Sturt ; done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. by Mr. John James of Greenwich.

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Creator:
Pozzo, Andrea, 1642–1709
Date:
[1707]
Physical Description:
[124] p., [105] leaves of plates: ill., diagrs. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Short and plain principles of linear perspective, adapted to naval architecture : containing rules to draw correctly the forms of ships in every possible position : the whole being rendered so clear that a complete knowledge of the art may be soon and easily attained : illustrated with five copper plates / by A. Cobin.

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Creator:
Cobin, A
Date:
1794
Physical Description:
[8], 6, [3] p., V folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Stereography, or, A compleat body of perspective : in all its branches. Teaching to describe, by mathematical rules, the appearances of lines, plain figures, and solid bodies rectilinear, curvilinear, and mixed in all manner of positions. Together with their projections or shadows, and their reflections by polished planes. The whole performed by uniform, easy, and general methods, for the most part entirely new. In seven books / By J. Hamilton ... In two volumes.

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Creator:
Hamilton, J. (John)
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
[9] p., 400, [6] p. : diagrs. on 130 fold. pl. ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of ... : illustrated with variety of copper-plate figures : to which are annexed the art of painting upon glass ... : to which is added a method of casting amber in any form whatever.

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Date:
1777
Physical Description:
92 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and desigining ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of three copper-plates.

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Date:
1798
Physical Description:
[4], 32, [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The art of drawing in perspective : wherein the doctrine of perspective is clearly and concisely treated of, upon geometric principles : and a mechanical method of perspective and designing ... : illustrated with a variety of examples of copper-plate figures.

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Date:
1786
Physical Description:
[2], 31 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

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Creator:
Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
xii, 123 p., 9 folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The art of drawing in perspective made easy : to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics / by James Ferguson ...

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Creator:
Ferguson, James, 1710–1776
Date:
1778
Physical Description:
xii, 123 p., 9 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in three parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ...

The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in three parts / by Thomas Sheraton, cabinet-maker ...
Creator:
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751–1806
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
xxxiii, [5]-446 p., [65] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The elements of linear perspective demonstrated by geometrical principles, and applied to the most general and concise modes of practice : with an introduction, containing so much of the elements of geometry as will render the whole rationale of perspective intelligible, without any other previous mathematical knowledge / by Edward Noble.

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Creator:
Noble, Edward
Date:
1771
Physical Description:
3, (iii)-cxvi (i.e. cxv), [1], 298 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts