A treatise of the theory and practice of perspective : wherein the principles of that most useful art, as laid down by Dr. Brook Taylor, are fully and clearly explained, by means of moveable schemes, properly adapted for that purpose : the whole being designed as an easy introduction to the art of drawing in perspective, and illustrated by a great variety of curious and instructing examples
A 1761 London treatise on linear perspective by Daniel Fournier, printed for the author and sold through Charles Nourse and Mr. Lacey, presenting Brook Taylor's principles as an easy introduction for students learning to draw in perspective. Its plates are geometric diagrams in plain black line on cream paper, showing vanishing points, orthogonals and construction lines beside simple solid forms such as cubes, pyramids and a chair and table, with lettered corners. A designer could take from them a clear method for constructing receding space and the precise, diagrammatic look of eighteenth-century technical instruction.
