The practice of perspective: or, an easy method of representing natural objects according to the rules of art. Applied and Exemplified in all the Variety of Cases; as Landskips, Gardens, Buildings of divers Kinds, their Appendages, Parts, Furniture, &c. With Rules for the Proportions, Positions, &c. Figures, both in Draught and Relievo. Also the Manner of conducting the Shadows by divers Luminaries; and Practical Methods of Designing truly, without understanding any Rules at all. A Work highly necessary for Painters, Engravers, Architects, Embroiderers, Statuaries, Jewellers, Tapestry-Workers, And others concerned in Designing. The Whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty copper-plates. Written in French by a Jesuit of Paris ; since translated into German, by Ch. Rembold and into English, by Rob. Pricke. And now, a second time, into the same language, by E. Chambers, F.R.S. The third edition. To which is prefixed The theory of perspective, in which the Reasons and Grounds of the several Methods made use of in the Practice are shewn and demonstrated, by James Hodgson, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Master of the Royal Mathematical School in Christ Hospital.

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MDCCXXXIX. [1739]