A text book of geometrical drawing, : for the use of mechanics and schools, in which the definitions and rules of geometry are familiarly explained, the practical problems are arranged from the most simple to the more complex, and in their description technicalities are avioded as much as possible; : with illustrations for drawing plans, sections and elevations of buildings and machinery: an introduction to isometrical drawing, and an essay on linear perspective and shadows: : the whole illustrated with fifty-six steel plates containing over two hundred diagrams. / By Wm. Minifie, architect, and teacher of drawing in the central high school of Baltimore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minifie, William, 1805-1880.

Contributor:

Minifie, William, 1805-1880., Publisher.

Baltimore Type and Stereotype Foundry., Stereotyper.

Toy, John D., Printer.

Carpenters' Company Library Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Illman & Sons., Engraver.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mechanical drawing.

Geometry, Descriptive.

Geometry--Study and teaching.

Geometry.

Perspective.

Isometric projection.

Physical Description:

vi, [1] 8-127, [1] p., 56 leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Baltimore] : Published by Wm. Minifie & Co., No. 114 Baltimore Street, Baltimore., 1849.

Notes:

Includes 56 engraved plates signed: Illman & Sons.

"Stereotyped at the Baltimore Type and Stereotype Foundry. Fielding Lucas, Jr., proprietor. John D. Toy, printer."--t.p. verso.

Local Notes:

Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.

Carpenters' Company copy with accession number 3406; first recorded in 1857 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 422 and in the 1857 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as no. 651.

Cited in:

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 780

OCLC:

231851853