The amateur's perspective : being an attempt to present the theory in the simplest form; and so to methodize and arrange the subject, as to render the practice familiarly intelligible to the uninitiated in a few hours of study
A perspective treatise printed in London in 1828 by Richard Davenport for the author, aimed at amateurs with no training who wanted to learn the theory in a few hours of study. Its plates are geometric construction diagrams: vanishing points, orthogonals, and plans of squares, circles, and checkerboards drawn in linear perspective. A designer could take from them the clean line-based method of building a receding floor, box, or grid from a ground plane.
