All draughtsmen's assistant, or, Drawing made easy : wherein the principles of that art are rendered familiar in ten instructive lessons comprised under the following heads : l. features and limbs, 2. profiles and ovals, 3. whole figures, 4. drapery, 5. light and shade, 6. landscapes, 7. perspective, 8. enlarging and contracting, 9. imitation of life, 10. history : explained by a great variety of examples from the most approved designs on copper-plates, neatly engraved : with a suitable introduction on the utility of this noble art and observations on design as well in regard to theory as practice (1794)

Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, Bennett, John, printseller · London : Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, map and print-sellers, (No. 53) Fleet-street · leaf 39

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