Practical perspective; or Perspective made easie. Teaching by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. By the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences, so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflectio shall shew a designe. By the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one, when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces. Usefull for all painters, engravers architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity. By Joseph Moxon hydrographe to the Kings most excellent Majesty
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Type of record: Book
Title: Practical perspective; or Perspective made easie. Teaching by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. By the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences, so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflectio shall shew a designe. By the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one, when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces. Usefull for all painters, engravers architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity. By Joseph Moxon hydrographe to the Kings most excellent Majesty
Classmark: Bedford Collection A072
Creator(s): Moxon, Joseph (1627-1691)
Additional creator(s): Hondius, Hendrik (1573-) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Wentworth, Sir John (1673-1720) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed by Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop in Russel street, at the signe of Atlas
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1670
Language: English
Size and medium: [6], 66 p., [42] leaves of plates (some folded)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721956
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019774791605181
Description
The words "perspective made easie." are xylographic.
The words "By the opticks,... many faces" are bracketed together on title page.
According to Moxon's preface "To the reader", most of the plates are taken from: Hondius, Hendrik. Institutio artis perspectivæ.
Includes movable slips on p. 7 and plate LVII, one with a window of mica.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A072: contemporary calf, blind tooled, gold tooled on spine.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A072: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: Po/3. Seventeenth/early eighteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: Sr. John Wentworth of North Elmes hall in the West Rideing of Yorkshire Baronet [i.e. Sir John Wentworth (1673-1720), 1st Baronet of North Elmsall, see Franks Bequest 152 p. 196]. MS. notes and doodles in pencil on front flyleaf and bookplate.
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