The Practice of Perspective: Or, an Easy Method of Representing Natural Objects According to the Rules of Art. Applied and Exemplified in Landskips

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T044151 'A Jesuit of Paris' = Jean Dubreuil. Titlepage in red and black. Each page number of the second arabic sequence is duplicated: 150 single-page plates, integral to the gatherings and signed 2, repeat the pagination of the facing text. Text page and plat London : printed for Tho. Bowles; and John Bowles, 1743. xiii,[5],16,[1],18,[2],19-41,[2],42-121,[2],122-128,[2],129-150,[1]. (i.e. = 334)p.,plate : ill. ; 4