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• Author/Creator:Wood, John George, 1768-1838.
  
• Title:Lectures on the principles and practice of perspective : as delivered at the Royal Institution : accompanied with a mechanical apparatus,and illustrated by engravings / by John George Wood, F.A.S.
  
• Edition:The second edition / corrected and enlarged.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand. By J. M'Creery, Fleet-Street, 1809.
  
• Physical Description:vi, [2], 95, [1] p., [4], 9 leaves of plates (plates 1-9 folded) : ill. ; 28 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: NC750 .W85 1809+ Oversize
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: Bound in marbled boards. Inscribed in ms. on front pasted-down end-paper: Frances Stackhouse.
  
• Notes:First published as "Six lectures on the principles and practive of perspective" in 1804. Copies may have been available with the "Mechanical apparatus" referred to on the t.p. Cf. British Architectural Library.
  Illustrations by W. J. Bennett; after John George Wood.
  
• Format:Book
• References:Archer, 354.2
  British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840 4150
  
• Subjects:Perspective.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1809.
  Engraving--Specimens--1809.
  Etching--Specimens--1809.
  Cadell, T.,--Publisher.
  Davies, W.,--Publisher.
  M'Creery, J.,--Printer.
  Stackhouse, Frances--Provenance.
  
• Genre/Form:Aquatints--1809.
  
• Also listed under:Bennett, W. J. (William James), 1787-1844, engraver.
  Wood, John George, 1768-1838, ill.