The practice of perspective
Subtitle: or, an easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art. Applied and exemplified in all the Variety of Cases; as Landskips, Gardens, Buildings of divers Kinds, their Appendages, Parts, Furniture, &c. With Rules for the Proportions, Positions, &c. of Figures, both in Draught and Relievo. Also the Manner of conducting the Shadows by divers Luminaries: and Practical Methods of Designing truly, without understanding any Rules at all. A Work highly necessary for Painters, Engravers, Architects, Embroiderers, Statuaries, Jewellers, Tapestry-Workers, And others concerned in Designing. The whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris; since translated into German by Ch. Rembold; and into English, by Rob. Pricke: and now, a second time, into the same language, by E. Chambers
Series: Cicognara library; Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: printed for Tho. Bowles, Print and Map-Seller in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and John Bowles, Print and Map-Seller over-against Stocks-Market, and at Mercers-Chapel in Cheapside
Published: 1726
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Perspective; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Perspective pratique
Notes: 'A Jesuit of Paris' = Jean Dubreuil.

Titlepage in red and black.

Pp. ix-x are misnumbered xi-xii.

Engraved illustrations and explanatory text with duplicate pagination.

Braces in imprint.

Cicognara, 828

English Short Title Catalog, T118311.