Rules and examples of perspective proper for painters and architects, etc. In English and Latin: containing 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: by that great master thereof, Andrea Pozzo, Soc. Jes. Engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the explanatory discourses: printed from copper-plates on ye 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.
Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709)
Category
Books
Date
1707
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3049189
Summary
Bibliographic description
[124] p., C [i.e. 105] leaves of plates : ill. (copper cuts), plans ; fol. Running number: 7304. Imperfect: wanting plates LVI-LIX and corresponding leaves of explanatory letterpress. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled calf (rubbed and scratched, torn on front cover); sewn onto six supports; gilt floral roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title on brown leather label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709), author John James of Greenwich (d.1746), editor John Sturt (1658-1730), engraver (printmaker) Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709), artist