A Manual of Perspective, Being a Familiar Explanation of the Science, including the rules necessary for the correct representation of object,s the principles of shadows, reflections in water, &c. Adapted more particularly For the Use of Amateurs. Second Edition, with Additions
by WOOD (J.), Jun.:
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Worcester: Wood and Son...and Whittaker and Co. London. 1843. Tall 8vo, 250 x 150 mms., pp. v [vi blank] [7] 8 - 34, engraved frontispiece, 6 other full-page engraved plates, original embossed cloth, title in gilt on front cover; slight stain on front cover, but a very good copy. "In this second edition corrections, wherever thought necessary, have been made, and various additions inserted, the latter with the view of rendering the work more complete; such cases only as may be deemed unimportant from seldom occurring, and which are calculated rather to gratify the curious than to recompense the student by their utility, being purposely omitted"(from the Introduction).
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- A Manual of Perspective, Being a Familiar Explanation of the Science, including the rules necessary for the correct representation of object,s the principles of shadows, reflections in water, &c. Adapted more particularly For the Use of Amateurs. Second Edition, with Additions
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- WOOD (J.), Jun.:
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- Hardcover
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- Worcester: Wood and Son...and Whittaker and Co. London. 1843
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