Rules and examples of perspective proper for painters and architects, etc. : in English and Latin ... / by ... Andrea Pozzo ... ; engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters ... by John Sturt ; done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. by Mr. John James of Greenwich.

Accession number

PML 77472

Creator

Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709.

Published

London : Printed by Benj. Motte ..., sold by John Sturt ..., 1707.

Credit line

Gift; Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager; 1981.

Notes

Added t.p.: Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum ...
Engraved list of subscribers: leaf [9].
Includes index.
Library's copy imperfect: leaves 1 & 2 (engraved frontispiece) wanting.
Text in Latin and English.

Description

[167] leaves : ill., plans ; 42 cm

Provenance

Formerly owned by James Anderson (subscribers' list), Society of Writers to H.M. Signet (inscription), Donald M. Oenslager (inscription).

Binding

1/4 brown cloth, marbled boards.

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books