A familiar introduction to the theory and practice of perspective
By: by Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Contributors: Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809, bookseller
Edition: The second edition corrected.
Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church Yard
Published: 1780
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Perspective; Early works to 1800; Art; Optics and Photonics
Notes: With two final leaves of advertisement.

P. 131 misnumbered 311.

Plate 23 = Fig. 51.

Some copies have two additional folded leaves of plates at the end, numbered in the upper-left corners '24' and '25' respectively; the plates are also numbered 'III' and 'VII' respectively in the upper-right corners; the plates are from Priestley's 'The history and present state of electricity' and, the sequential numbering notwithstanding, are not referred to in the text of 'A familiar introduction ... '.

Blake, J. NLM 18th cent., p. 363

English short title catalogue, T35304
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A familiar introduction to the theory and practice of perspective; title: A general view of the theory of perspective with notes relating to it; title: Contents; title: The plates.