A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, For The Use of Mechanics And Schools, et al; With Illustrations For Drawing Plan, Sections And Elevations Of Buildings And Machinery: An Introduction To Isometrical Drawing, And An Essay On Linear Perspective And Shadows
Baltimore: W.M. Minifie & Co., 1849. First edition. Hardcover. 127 pages 25 x 17 cm. Fifty six plates including the frontispiece. Some slight toning to text and illustrations. Owner inscription free front endpaper. HITCHCOCK 780. Two slight marring spots front cover. Binding solid. cm. Fifty-six steel engraved plates. A monumentally popular manual and the author's first work which went through countless editions. This edition with additional material -- "An Introduction to Isometrical Drawing, And An Essay On Linear Perspective And Shadows." The author, an architect and teacher was a professor of Drawing at the Maryland Institute. HITCHCOCK 788, for the Seventh edition, this edition not noted. Tight copy, bright and clean text. Contemporary brown sheep spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpaper. Very good. Item #24580
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