Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774.
Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy;
both in theory and practice: in two books. Being An Attempt to make the Art of Perspective easy and familiar; To adapt it intirely to the Arts of Design; And to make it an Entertaining Study to any Gentleman who shall chuse so polite an Amusement. By Joshua Kirby, Designer in Perspective to their Majesties, And Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. Illustrated with many copper-plates, Correctly Engraved under the Author's Inspection.
TitleDr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy; both in theory and practice: in two books. Being An Attempt to make the Art of Perspective easy and familiar; To adapt it intirely to the Arts of Design; And to make it an Entertaining Study to any Gentleman who shall chuse so polite an Amusement. By Joshua Kirby, Designer in Perspective to their Majesties, And Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. Illustrated with many copper-plates, Correctly Engraved under the Author's Inspection.
EditionThe third edition, with several additions and improvements. ..
ImprintLondon : printed for the author: and sold by T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate; T. Longman, in Paternoster-Row; J. Wilkie, St. Paul's-Church-Yard; T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; Brotherton and Sewell, in Cornhill; and I. Taylor, in Holborn, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
NotesThe second part has a separate titlepage, pagination and register.
With a final leaf containing a remark upon Cowley's 'New treatise on perspective'.
The plates are in two, numbered sequences.
Reproduction noteMicrofilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 8635, no.01).
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774.
Dr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy;
both in theory and practice: in two books. Being An Attempt to make the Art of Perspective easy and familiar; To adapt it intirely to the Arts of Design; And to make it an Entertaining Study to any Gentleman who shall chuse so polite an Amusement. By Joshua Kirby, Designer in Perspective to their Majesties, And Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. Illustrated with many copper-plates, Correctly Engraved under the Author's Inspection.
TitleDr. Brook Taylor's method of perspective made easy; both in theory and practice: in two books. Being An Attempt to make the Art of Perspective easy and familiar; To adapt it intirely to the Arts of Design; And to make it an Entertaining Study to any Gentleman who shall chuse so polite an Amusement. By Joshua Kirby, Designer in Perspective to their Majesties, And Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. Illustrated with many copper-plates, Correctly Engraved under the Author's Inspection.
EditionThe third edition, with several additions and improvements. ..
ImprintLondon : printed for the author: and sold by T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate; T. Longman, in Paternoster-Row; J. Wilkie, St. Paul's-Church-Yard; T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; Brotherton and Sewell, in Cornhill; and I. Taylor, in Holborn, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
NotesThe second part has a separate titlepage, pagination and register.
With a final leaf containing a remark upon Cowley's 'New treatise on perspective'.
The plates are in two, numbered sequences.
Reproduction noteMicrofilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 8635, no.01).
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
