The perspective of architecture : In two parts. A work entirely new; deduced from the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor; And performed by Two Rules only of Universal Application. Part the First, Contains The Description and Use of a new Instrument called the Architectonic Sector. Part the Second, A New Method of Drawing the Five Orders, Elegant Structures, &c. in Perspective. Begun BY Command of His Present Majesty, When Prince of Wales. By Joshua Kirby, Designer in Perspective to His Majesty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirby, John Joshua, 1716-1774.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perspective--Early works to 1800.

Perspective.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6],82[2],ii,60,[2]p.,plates )

Other Title:

Perspective of architecture.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, in Duke-Street, Grosvenor-Square, by R. Francklin, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and sold by T. Payne, at the Mews Gate; Messieurs Knapton and Horsefield, in Ludgate Street; Messieurs Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; T. Longman, in Pater-Noster Row; T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and J. Gretton, in Bond Street, MDCCLXI. [1761]

Notes:

The second part has a separate titlepage, pagination and register.

The dedication is engraved.

With a final index leaf with errata on its verso. The E copy is bound in two vols., one for letterpress and the second for plates; this second vol. has extra titlepage for "Volume the second": possibly specially printed for vol. 2? Verify.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T133638.

OCLC:

642382030