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 23
it pleafeGod to give me Life and Health to compofe another Book, I fhall then fhew the Method of put-ting Works into Perfpective by the Rule I make ufe of at prefent, which is more eafy and generalthan the common way, tho this be the Foundation of the other. Therefore, Reader, my Ad-vice is, that… … THE Approbation of this Edition. T the Requeft of the Engraver, We haveperusd this Volume of Perspective; andjudge it % WORK that deferves Encou-ragement, and very proper for Inftruc-tion in that ARX
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