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 reflection 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. Useful for all painters, engravers architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity.

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

• Alternate title

  Perspective made easie

By

• • Has author 

    Moxon, Joseph

Contributors

• • Contributor 

    Hendrick Hondius (I)

Publisher

• Publication

  London: Printed by Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop in Russel Street, at the signe of the Atlas, 1670

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1670

Is about

• Subject

  • As subject 

    kunsttheorie
  • As subject 

    perspectiefleer

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    English

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • Includes movable slips on p. 7 and plate LVII, one with a window of mica.
  • "First edition. Most of the plates are taken from the Perspective of Hondius (1623) ... as mentioned by Moxon in his preface"--Fowler.
  • The words "By the opticks ... many faces" are bracketed together on title page.
  • The words "perspective made easie." are xylographic.
  • Signatures: [A]² B-S².

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