The principles of practical perspective, or, Scenographic projection
Subtitle: containing universal rules for delineating designs on various surfaces and taking views from nature by the most simple and expeditious methods, to which are added, rules for shadowing, and the elements of painting, the whole treated in a manner calculated to render the science of perspective and the art of drawing easy of attainment to every capacity : illustrated with fifty-one plates
By: by Richard Brown ; architect and professor of perspective
Contributors: Brown, Richard (Architect), illustrator; Busby, Thomas Lord, engraver; Vroom, Thomas, former owner
Publisher: Printed for Samuel Leigh, in the Strand: sold also by R. Ackermann, Repository of the Arts, 101, Strand; J. Harding, St. James's Street; and J. Taylor, Architectural Library, High Holborn
Published: 1815
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Perspective; Technique; Painting; Study and teaching
Other titles: Principles of practical perspective; Scenographic projection
Notes: Illustrations by T.L Busby; after Richard Brown.

Printed by L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh, 373, Strand.

Avery Classics copy: Frontispiece is hand-colored.

Avery Classics copy: With a bookplate: T. V., De Artificiali P[er]spectiva [i.e. Thomas Vroom]

NSTC, B4820

Archer, 25.1

British Architectural Library. Early Imprints Collection. Early printed books, 1478-1840. London : Bowker-Saur, 1994-[2003], 436

Avery Classics copy: Later binding, half leather and marbled paper over boards; with spine title: Brown on practical perspective.