[Rarebooks] FS: Malton on PERSPECTIVE [1778]

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Malton, Thomas [1748 - 1804].  A COMPLETE TREATISE On PERSPECTIVE In
THEORY And PRACTICE;  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
...   London: Printed for the Author, 1778.  2 volumes.  Text volume
pagination:  [12], 296, 8 pp.  Frontis, & 48 plates.  Folio.  14" x
9-1/8".   Period mottled calf, with later elaborately gilded
rebacking to style. Period marbled eps.  The 2nd edition, Corrected &
Improved, with Large Additions (Lowndes 1460).  VG (usual bit of
foxing throughout/bpt [Joesph Walker]).  Ex-lib, with occasional oval
stamp to text volume & to margins of 7 plates (frontis, first 3
plates, 21, 33, & 41).  $2500.

Thomas Malton was an architectual draughtsman of some repute;  known
for his accuracy in perspective, young J. M. W. Turner was brought to
Malton by his father for lessons on that very subject, and
subsequently Turner, in later life, said "My real master was Tom
Malton."  [DNB]. 

The last 8 pp of Volume I describe the case of the author, who lost
the [bulk of the] first edition sheets [1776] to fire; and accounts
for the relative scarcity of that edition.

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