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| 044 | # | # | $a uk |
| 100 | 1 | # | $a Malton, Thomas |
| 245 | 1 | 2 | $a A Compleat Treatise On Perspective, In Theory And Practice; $b On The True Principles Of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made Clear, In Theory, By Various Moveable Schemes, And Diagrams; And Reduced To Practice, In The Most Familiar and Intelligent Manner; Shewing How To Delineate All Kinds Of Regular Objects, By Rule. The Theory And Projection Of Shadows, By Sun-Shine, And By Candle-Light. The Effects Of Reflected Light, On Objects; Their Reflected Images, On The Surface Of Water, And On Polished, Plane Surfaces, In All Positions. The Whole Explicitly Treated; And Illustrated, In A Great Variety Of Familiar Examples; In Four Books. Embellished With An Elegant Frontispiece, And Forty-Eight Plates. Containing Diagrams, Views, And Original Designs, In Architecture, &c. Neatly Engraved. All Originals; Invented, Delineated, And, Great Part, Engraved By The Author, Thomas Malton. The Second Edition, Corrected and improved; With Large Additions. |
| 260 | # | # | $a London: $b Printed for the Author; and sold by Messrs. Robson, in Bond-Street; Becket, Adelphi, Strand; Taylor, near Great Turn-stile, Holborn; Dilly, in the Poultry; and by the Author, No. 56, Poland-street, Oxford Road, near the Pantheon. $c MDCCLXXVIII. $c [1778] |
| 300 | # | # | $a [4], iv, [16], 296, 8 p., frontis., 48 pl. (most fold.); $c 347 mm. (Folio). |
| 500 | # | # | $a All plates are folding except the frontis. and nos. 26, 27, 28, 37. Four are fitted with moveable pieces (4, 5, 8, 37). |
| 505 | 0 | # | $a [Frontis., t.-p., dedic.] - Subscribers To The Compleat Treatise On Perspective - Preface - An Index, and Table of Contents - Errata - [Text, with pl.] - A True Case, Between The Author, Of A Late Publication, His Printers, and Paper Merchants. |
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$a No plate is signed by a draughtsman; four are signed as engraved by T. Miller (25, 33, 36, 48), one as engraved by A. Smith (26). The frontispiece and most plates carry the publisher's imprint of Thomas Malton and are dated 1774 or 1775. The work is dedicated by the author to the President and Members of the Royal Academy. |
| 510 | 0 | # | $a Royal Institute Of British Architetcs, Early printed books, 3 (1999), no.2020 [1779 issue], p.1066-7; J. Archer, Literature of British domestic architecture (1985), 200.3; M. Kemp, The science of art: optical themes in western art (1990), esp. p. 154-156. |
| 510 | 4 | # | $a ESTC $c T167091 |
| 520 | 2 | # |
$a Malton's book was first published in 1775 (and probably in parts in 1774-5: Malton's publisher's imprint on several of the plates retains these dates). This second edition was published after a fire had destroyed the stock of the first edition - and the author here includes an account of his dispute with the printers Cox and Bigg and paper-merchants Wright and Gill ('A True Case, Between The Author, Of A Late Publication, His Printers, and Paper Merchants'). The work was reissued in 1779 - with re-set title-page, re-set dedication and a new table of contents, and without 'A True Case...'. The book has been described as one of the most complete studies of perspective of the eighteenth century, and one suited equally to artists and architects and to mathematicians. Besides his schematic diagrams, Malton includes clear representations of roofs and staircases (pl. 6, 32) and engineering devices (pl. 35), and a view of St Paul's church, Covent Garden, in shadow. This was the first substantial book on perspective published after the founding of the Royal Academy in December 1768 (article XII of whose Instrument of Foundation specifically provides for the teaching of perspective), and many Academicians subscribed for copies (see the section of 'Royal Academicians and other Artists, &c.' in the list of Subscribers). By 1802 the Academy's library contained sixteen books on perspective, including editions of the classic treatises by Vignola, Bosse, Niceron, Pozzo and Sirigatti, together with works by more recent writers on the subject such as Cowley, Fournier, Hamilton, Kirby and James Malton. However, despite its author's dedication to the president and members of the Academy, the present volume was not acquired until 1879. |
| 561 | # | # | $a Purchased for RA Library in 1879 (see RA Annual Report for 1879, p. 49). |
| 563 | # | # | $a 18th-century calf, upper cover decorated with gilt panels; rebacked in 20th century retaining earlier spine-piece, red and green morocco spine-labels lettered 'Malton's Perspective', 'MDCCLXXVIII' and 'R.A.' |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | $a Taylor, Brook |
| 653 | # | # | $a Perspective - History |
| 655 | # | 4 | $a Manuals - Instructional materials - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 655 | # | 4 | $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Taylor, Brook |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Miller, Tobias $e engraver |
| 700 | 1 | # | $a Smith, Anker $e engraver |
| 710 | 2 | # | $a Royal Academy of Arts (London) $e dedicatee |
| 852 | 8 | # | $d 1802: 2-3-03. |