https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301284893
additional type: Special collections
  name: Speciale collecties @nl
  type: DefinedTerm
example of work: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/300284893
material extent: [6], 66 pages, [42] leaves of plates (2 folded)
name: Practical perspective ; or Perspective made easie: Teaching by the opticks, how to delineate all bodies, buildings, or landskips, &c. By the catoptricks, how to delineate confused appearences, so as when seen in a mirror or pollisht body of any intended shape, the reflection shall shew a designe. By the dioptircks [sic], how to draw parts of many figures into one, when seen through a glass or christal cut into many faces. Useful for all painters, engravers architects, &c. and all others that are any waies inclined to speculatory ingenuity.
publication: PublicationEvent
  published by: Printed by Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop in Russel Street, at the signe of the Atlas
publication: London: Printed by Joseph Moxon, and sold at his shop in Russel Street, at the signe of the Atlas; 1670
publication: PublicationEvent
  location: London
publication: PublicationEvent
  start date: 1670
size: 32 cm (fol.)
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: The words "By the opticks ... many faces" are bracketed together on title page.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: The words "perspective made easie." are xylographic.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: Includes movable slips on p. 7 and plate LVII, one with a window of mica.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: "First edition. Most of the plates are taken from the Perspective of Hondius (1623) ... as mentioned by Moxon in his preface"--Fowler.
subject of: Statement
  additional type: physical
  text: illustrations (engravings)
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300435416
  text: Signatures: [A]² B-S².
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/302343726
type: CreativeWork
type: ProductModel