Dictionarium polygraphicum, or, The whole body of arts regularly digested ... : illustrated with fifty-six copper plates

Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics, Toms, W. H. (William Henry), ca. 1700-ca. 1750, Devoto, John, fl. 1719-1752, Hitch, Charles, d. 1764, Hawes, Lacy · 1758 · London : Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-noster-Row : J. Hinton, in Newgate-Street : and L. Davis and C. Reymers, against Gray's Inn · 42 pictures

An English encyclopaedia of the arts and trades compiled by mathematics teacher John Barrow and printed in London in 1758 for craftsmen, painters and students, with fifty-six copper plates engraved by W. H. Toms after John Devoto. The plates are perspective demonstrations: lettered points, dotted projection rays, horizon lines and hatched planes and solids receding to vanishing points.

Arts · Industrial arts

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