Grammigraphia; or The Grammar Of Drawing: A System of Appearance, Which, By Easy Rules, Communicates Its Principles, And Shews How It Is To Be Presented By Lines; Distinguishing The Real Figure In Nature From The Appearance, Or Shewing The Appearance By The Reality; Rendering Visual Observation More Correct And Interesting; And Proposing The Pleasure, And Universality Of The Science. By William Robson.

William Robson

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2390

Author

Variant Title

Grammar of drawing

Imprint

London:: Printed For The Author, By W. Wilson, St. Peter's Hill, Doctors' Commons; And Sold By J. Wallis, Pater-nosterrow; W. Richardson, Corner Of Villiers Street, Strand; And At Bull's Library, Bath. Entered at Stationers' Hall., M DCC XC IX.

Physical Description

150 p.: illus.; 264 mm. (Quarto).

Responsibility Note

The illustrations are not signed.

The work is dedicated by the author to the King (George III).

References

ESTC, T102869 describes a slightly different issue

Provenance

Presented by the author. See RAA Council Minutes III, p. 47, 31 December 1799. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).

Binding Note

18th-century marbled-papered boards; 20th-century half calf, black morocco spine-label lettered 'The Grammar Of Drawing'.

Subject

Drawing - Techniques - History
Manuals - Instructional materials - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century

Contributors

George III King of Great Britain, dedicatee
William Wilson, printer
James Wallis, bookseller
W. Richardson, bookseller
John Bull, bookseller
Lewis Bull, bookseller
Bull's Library (Bath), bookseller