Practice Perspective Easy Method Representing, Used (6 results)

Condition: Like New. Used - Like New. This is a reproduction of an out of print title. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Full Calf. Condition: Very Good. Sixth Edition. William Gillbee Scott. His copy. Book measures 27x22.cm. Collation, xvi,xvi, 4 plates, 150pp, and a further 150 plates. Bound in full calf. At some time the spine has been rebacked, retaining the period boards, gilt bands, leather title label. Boards rubbed, worn on corners. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, 2 previous owners inscription, dated 1788,1858, plus Scott's bookplate. Pages and plates clean. A very good copy. F Size: Quarto.

Hardcover. Condition: vg. 6th edition. 4to. xvi, xvi, 150 pp. Rebacked in leather retaining original mottled calf boards with gold borders, black leather label with gold lettering. 150 copper plates, (1). " .With rules for the proportion and position of figures, both in draught and relievo. Also the manner of conducting the shadows, produced either by Natural or artificial luminaries; and practical methods of drawing after nature, when the process of rules are not understood. A work highly necessary for Painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, statuaries, jewellers, tapestry-workers, and others concerned in designing." Originally written in French by a Jesuit of Paris. One of the most influential work of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries on perspective written for the layman. Also known as the "Jesuit's Perspective," it was first published in French in 1642. The work was widely read in colonial America and remained a standard text for over a hundred years. Translated by E. Chambers. Plates 125-129 in Part IV are incorrectly marked for Part V. An important work on types and applications of visual and graphical perspective including an essay on theory by James Hodgson. Age wear, scuffing and some staining on binding. Reinforced with white binders taps along gutter on front and rear endpapers. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Large quarto. xvi, xvi, [1], 18, [2], 19-41, [2], 42-121, [2], 122-128, [2], 129-150, [1]pp. A4, a4, C4-Z4, Aa4-Uu4. Fourth English edition. Collation and catchwords erratic. Even though signatures A4 and B4 seem to be missing and the catchword at the end of a4 seems to indicate a missing quire, there is nothing missing. Nineteenth-century red half morocco over marbled boards, slightly rubbed. With 2 folding plates and 150 copperplate engravings. Fowler 110. Stained and browned.

Leatherbound. Condition: Very Good. 6th edition. 1749 Bowles London third edition in contemporary full leather binding. Bookplates front pastedown. Illustrated throughout including fold outs (one repaired). Tight binding light toning. No titling to spine. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

"Third" [recté fourth] edition of the second English translation (by the encyclopaedist Ephraim Chambers) of one of the most influential handbooks of perspective ever published: Le perspective practique (Paris, 1642) by the Jesuit mathematician Jean Dubreuil (1602-1670). "Probably the most influential [work on perspective] ever published expressly for the use of a lay audience" (Millard), it is clearly and thoroughly illustrated with 150 full-page engravings printed from the original plates of the 1672 English edition, which were copied in mirror image from the original 1642 edition, plus 2 folding plates illustrating Hodgson's essay. It was especially important in England, where Robert Pricke published a translation already in 1672 and Chambers published the present improved translation in 1726. The title page describes it as "highly necessary for painters, engravers, architects, embroiderers, statuaries, jewellers, tapestry-workers, and others concerned in designing." The 1739 edition introduced the present 16-page essay on the theory of perspective by James Hodgson, a fellow of the Royal Society and one of England's leading mathematicians, as well as the two folding plates that accompany it. With 19th-century owners' inscriptions at the head of the title page: "J.G. Poole Southampton 1841" (struck through) and ". Bartlett Worthing" (initial unclear). Very slightly browned, with a transparent stain in the upper right corner of the title-page, an occasional very small marginal stain, and a black spot in the text of 1 page, but still in good condition. The sewing of the first quire is somewhat loose, but the binding is otherwise very good.l BAL 925; ESTC T117737; Fowler, p. 92 note (but describing "seventh" ed., ca. 1780); cf. Berlin Kat. 4714 (1642 French ed.); Millard French 63-64 (1651 & 1679 French eds.); not in Millard English. Half calf (ca. 1985), sewn on 5 supports, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco label, marbled sides (spot pattern in light brown, dark brown and green). With the title page in red and black and 5 divisional titles, 2 folding engraved plates, 150 numbered full-page engravings on integral leaves, a woodcut headpiece, 11 woodcut tailpieces (plus 7 duplicates), 2 woodcut factotums and hundreds of decorative bands built up from typographic ornaments. Pages: XIII, [5], 16, [1] pp., 18, [1], 19-41, [1], 42-121, [1], 122-128, [1], 129-150 double-page spreads, [1 blank] pp.