[Rarebooks] FS: Brown's "Principles of Practical Perspective..." w/aquatint frontis. & 50 litho plates. London: 1815

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(ART) Brown, Richard. THE PRINCIPLES OF PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE; OR SCENOGRAPHIC PROJECTION: Containing Universal Rules for Delineating Designs on Various Surfaces, and Taking Views from Nature, by the Most Simple and Expeditious Methods. To Which Are Added, Rules for Shadowing and the Elements of painting... Illustrated with Fifty-One Plates. London: Printed for Samuel Leigh... 1815. Folio. xviii,96pp. Uncut copy. Plus a color aquatint frontispiece and 50 lithographic plates. Rebound in tan calf, red morocco spine label, over boards. Frontispiece & title lightly soiled. Ownership signature dated 1830 on a preliminary bank. Old private library blindstamp at top of title.    $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
Brown was an architect and "professor of perspective."

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