The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective : containing rules and principles for delineation on planes : treated so as to render the art of drawing correctly easy of attainment even to common capacities : and entertaining at the same time, from its truth and facility : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing

Read more Read less

Printed by S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, Holborn.
British Architectural Library suggests that there exists at least two variant states of the title page. One is "Printed by J. Barfield, No. 91, Wardour Street ..." and the other one is "Printed by V. Griffiths, No. 1, Paternoster Row ...". The watermark in the plates of the Abbey copy is 1803 which suggests that the Barfield imprint may represent a latter issue, with reprinted plates and a cancel title leaf.
Woodcut diagrams within text throughout.
Paging of plates: 1-4, V, VI, 7-9, X, 11, XII, XIII, 14, XV, XVII, 18, XIX, XX, 21, XXII, 23.
Archer, J. British domestic architecture, 198.1
British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 2019
English short title catalogue, N48425
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 152
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Both copies are large paper copies, plates VI and 14 with moveable slips.