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001 $ 03/2838
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20240423122034.7
035 # # $z 14429 (previous RA accession number)
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Noble, Edward
245 1 4 $a The Elements Of Linear Perspective Demonstrated By Geometrical Principles, And applied to the most general and concise Modes Of Practice. $b With An Introduction, Containing So Much Of The Elements of Geometry As Will Render The Whole Rationale of Perspective Intelligible, Withot Any Other Previous Mathematical Knowledge. By Edward Noble.
260 # # $a London. $b Printed for T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, Bookseller to the Royal Academy. $c MDCCLXXI. $c [1771]
300 # # $a [4], [i]-cxvi [i.e. cxv], [1], 298 p., 4, 48 pl. (two fold.); $c 211 mm. (Octavo.)
500 # # $a Page cxv is misnumbered cxvi. Plates 30 and 45 are folding.
505 0 # $a [T.p., dedic.] - Contents; To the Book-Binder; Errata in the Introduction - Preface - Introduction, Containing Such Geometrical Propositions, (Extracted from Euclid's Elements) As are necessary to demonstrate The Principles of Perspective [with 4 pl.] - Some Errors of the Press and the Engraver ... - [Text, with 48 pl.]
508 # # $a No plate is signed.

The work is dedicated by the author 'To Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knt. President Of The Royal Academy Of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, And Fellow Of The Royal Society'.
510 4 # $a ESTC $c T100912
533 # # $n An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale).
561 # # $a Acquired between 1771 and 1802. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal AZcademy, London (1802).
563 # # $a 18th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; rebacked and recornered in 20th century, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Euclid's Elements'.
653 # # $a Perspective - Geometry - History
655 # 4 $a Manuals - Instructional materials - Great Britain - 18th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Reynolds, Joshua $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Davies, Thomas $e publisher
700 0 # $a Euclid
710 2 # $a Royal Academy of Arts (London). President $e dedicatee
852 8 # $d 1802: C-2-04; 1821: 3-2-11.