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001 $ 07/2052
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20220113131403.5
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Taylor, Brook
245 1 0 $a New Principles Of Linear Perspective: Or The Art of Designing On a Plane, The Representations Of All Sorts Of Objects, In A more General and Simple Method than has been hitherto done. - The Third Edition. - By Brook Taylor, Ll.D. and R.S.S. - Revised and Corrected by John Colson, M.A. and F.R.S. Lucasian Professor of Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge. -
260 # # $a London: $b Printed for John Ward, at the King's-Arms in Little-Britain. $c MDCCXLIX. $c [1749]
300 # # $a 80 p., 13 fold. pl.; $c 200 mm. (Quarto).
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - Preface - [Text] - [Plates].
508 # # $a The plates are unsigned.
510 4 # $a ESTC $c T134042
510 3 # $a On Brook Taylor in the history of perspective see M. Kemp, The science of art: optical themes (1992).
510 3 # $a K. Anderson, Brook Taylor's role in the history of linear perspective (1989).
510 3 # $a P. Descargues, Perspective: history (1982).
520 2 # $a Brook Taylor's Linear perspective had been published in 1715 and his New principles of linear perspective in 1719, and had established the 'measure point' method at the centre of British theory.
533 # # $n A microfilm version was published in 1986 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications).
561 # # $a A preliminary leaf is inscribed in ink, 'Bequest of Sr. A.W. Callcott.'
563 # # $a 20th-century half calf, brown cloth-covered boards; gilt-decorated spine lettered 'The Art Of Designing - Taylor', 'R.A.' and '1749'.
653 # # $a Perspective
655 # 4 $a Manuals - Great Britain - 18th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Colson $e editor
700 1 # $a Ward $e publisher
700 1 # $a Callcott $e previous owner $e donor