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Rules and examples of perspective proper for painters and architects, etc. in English and Latin :‡bcontaining a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from the confusion of occult lines /‡cby that great master thereof, Andrea Pozzo, Soc. Jef. engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the explanatory discourses ; printed from copper-plates ony best paper by John Sturt ; done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. by Mr John James of Greenwich (1693)

Pozzo, Andrea · J Senex and R Gosling · leaf 18

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TO THIS TRANSLATION. … OTWITHSTANDING the Art of PERSPECTIVErauft be acknowledgd fo highly and indifpenfably requifitein the Pra&ice of Tainting, Architecture, and Sculpture jthat in the Firft of thefe efpecially, nothing commendablecan be performed without its Affiftance: Yet fuch have beenthe Difficulties and…

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