The Compleat drawing-book: Containing many and curious specimens, under the following heads; 1. Select parts of the human body. 2. Heads, with the various passions of the soul. 3. Academy and groups of figures. 4. Beasts and birds of various kinds. 5. Landscapes, views, and ruins. With out-lines to each plate. Made easier to the comprehension of beginners than any book of this kind hitherto made publick. The whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred copper-plates, from le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, and others the best masters. To which are annex'd, proper instructions to youth for their entertainment and improvement in this art.

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MDCCLV. [1755]
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London : Printed for, and sold by Robert Sayer, map and print-seller, at the Golden Buck, opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, MDCCLV. [1755]

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7, [1] p., 100 plates ; 80.

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ESTC T148934

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