Rules and examples of perspective proper for painters and architects, etc. in English and Latin :‡bcontaining a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture, after a new manner, wholly free from the confusion of occult lines /‡cby that great master thereof, Andrea Pozzo, Soc. Jef. engraven in 105 ample folio plates, and adorn'd with 200 initial letters to the explanatory discourses ; printed from copper-plates ony best paper by John Sturt ; done into English from the original printed at Rome 1693 in Lat. and Ital. by Mr John James of Greenwich
Rules and examples of perspective by Andrea Pozzo, a Jesuit painter, published in London in 1693 as an English and Latin treatise for painters and architects, with 105 folio copperplates. The pictures are rotated engravings: a large initial letter with a scene, a ruled perspective of receding coffered panels, and architectural plans and elevations with construction lines and cornice mouldings, showing how to draw buildings in perspective without visible guide lines.
