Rules and examples of perspective, proper for painters and architects, etc. : In English and Latin : containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from the confusion of occult lines / by that great master thereof, Andrea Pozzo, Soc.Jes. ; Engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the explanatory discourses: printed from copper-plates on [the] best paper, by John Sturt. Done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. by Mr. John James of Greenwich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709, author.

Contributor:

James, John, -1746, translator.

Sturt, John, 1658-1730, engraver.

Motte, Benjamin, -1710, printer.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Perspective--Early works to 1800.

Perspective.

Architectural drawing.

Physical Description:

[122] pages illustrations, C (i. e. 105) plates (including diagrams) 41 cm

Other Title:

Pozzo's architecture in perspective

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by Benj. Motte, sold by J. Sturt in Golden-Lion-Court in Aldersgate-Street, MDCCVII [1707].

Language Note:

Text in English and Latin.

Notes:

Engraved frontispiece and title pages included in number of plates.

Added t.p.: Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum ...

With an engraved list of subscribers and an additional engraved titlepage in Latin.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Sandra and Hyman Myers.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T114554

Contains:

Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709. Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum. English.

Pozzo, Andrea, 1642-1709. Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum. Latin.

OCLC:

3473671