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• Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), contrib. by George R. Goldner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Seventeenth Century in Italy (Drawings from New York Collections series, vol. 2; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1967), by Jacob Bean and Felice Stampfle (page images with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings (Robert Lehman Collection series v5; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1991), by Anna Forlani Tempesti (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• A Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing or Colouring of Maps and Prints (London; M. Simmons, 1652), by Thomas Jenner (PDF at shipbrook.net)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1876), by John Ruskin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Line and Form (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Sehen und Zeichnen: Vortrag Gehalten auf dem Rathause zu Zürich, 1. Februar 1894 (in German; Basel: B. Schwabe, 1894), by Albert Heim
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), contrib. by George R. Goldner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Jacob Bean and Lawrence Turčić (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings (Robert Lehman Collection series v5; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1991), by Anna Forlani Tempesti (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), contrib. by George R. Goldner (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture (London: UCL Press, 2016), ed. by Laura Allen and Luke Pearson
  • PDF with commentary at UCL Press
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Divina Proportione: Opera a Tutti Glingegni Perspicaci e Curiosi Necessaria oue Ciascun Studioso di Philosophia; Prospettiua Pictura Sculptura; Architectura; Musica; e Altre Mathematice; Suavissima; Sotile; e Admirabile Doctrina Consequira; e Delecterassi, Co Varie Questione de Secretissima Scientia (in Italian; Venice: A. Paganius Paganinus characteribus elegantissimis accuratissime imprimebat, 1509), by Luca Pacioli, contrib. by Antonio Capella, illust. by Leonardo da Vinci
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Monthly Illustrator (full serial archives)
• The Quarterly Illustrator (full serial archives)

• The American Drawing-Book: A Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for the Professional Artist (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1870), by John Gadsby Chapman (page images at Wisconsin)
• Drawing Made Easy: A Book That Can Teach You How to Draw (Chicago: Hall and McCreary Co., 1923), by Charles Lederer (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Children Learn to Draw (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., 1916), by Walter Sargent and Elizabeth Miller Lobingier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture (second edition; London: Printed for M. Taylor, 1835), by Richard Brown (multiple formats at Google)
• Groups of Flowers: Drawn and Accurately Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• Groups of Fruit: Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (London: Printed for William Stockdale, 1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• Mott's Elementary Book, No. II: Containing Exercises in Spelling and Reading, Modern Exercises in Drawing, and Appropriate Exercises in Mental Arithmetic (stereotype edition; New York: G. C. Mott, 1850), by George Mott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The New Art Geometry: or, Geometrical Drawing Applied to Design (London: G. W. Bacon and Co., 1901), by Frank Steeley and Bernard H. Trotman
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Six Birds, Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• Guide for Drawing the Acanthus, and Every Description of Ornamental Foliage (London: B. Quaritch, reprinted 1886), by James Page
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sketching and Rendering in Pencil (New York: Pencil Points Press, 1922), by Arthur L. Guptill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Student's Manual of Fashion Drawing: Thirty Lessons with Conventional Charts (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1919), by Edith Young (page images at Wisconsin)

• The American Drawing-Book: A Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for the Professional Artist (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1870), by John Gadsby Chapman (page images at Wisconsin)
• De L'Enseignement du Dessin, Sous le Point de Vue Industriel (in French; Paris: Giroux, et al., 1836), by Alexandre Dupuis (multiple formats at Google)
• How to Draw: A Practical Book of Instruction in the Art of Illustration (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Leon Barritt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Theory and Practice of Perspective, by G. A. Storey (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of the Most Beautiful Flowers Regularly Dispos'd in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours, with Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature, Being a New Work Intended for the Use and Amusement of Gentlemen and Ladies Delighting in That Art (London: Printed for R. Sayer et al., ca. 1770), by Carington Bowles
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Why Architects Draw (with new preface; originally c1994), by Edward Robbins (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Study of Architectural Design, With Special Reference to the Program of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (New York: Pencil Points Press, 1926), by John F. Harbeson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Color in Sketching and Rendering (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp., 1935), by Arthur L. Guptill, contrib. by John Floyd Yewell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Daumier: Der Meister der Karikatur (in German; Munich: Delphin Verlag, c1920), by Arthur Rümann, illust. by Honoré Daumier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Book of Images (London: At the Unicorn Press, 1898), contrib. by W. B. Yeats, illust. by W. T. Horton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Die Deutschen Meister: Beschreibendes Verzeichnis Sämtlicher Zeichnungen (2 volumes in German; Berlin: J. Bard, 1921), ed. by Elfried Bock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forty-Three Drawings (London et al.: J. Lane, 1914), by Alastair, contrib. by Robert Baldwin Ross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Drawings and Studies by Michelangelo in the University Galleries, Oxford (new edition; London: G. Bell and sons, 1879), contrib. by Joseph Fisher, illust. by Michelangelo Buonarroti (page images at HathiTrust)

• Student's Manual of Fashion Drawing: Thirty Lessons with Conventional Charts (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1919), by Edith Young (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Natural Principles and Analogy of the Harmony of Form (London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1842), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The New Art Geometry: or, Geometrical Drawing Applied to Design (London: G. W. Bacon and Co., 1901), by Frank Steeley and Bernard H. Trotman
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Fundamentals of Engineering Drawing for Technical Students and Professional Draftsmen (revised edition; New York: Prentice-Hall, 1946), by Warren Jacob Luzadder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Engineer Draughtsmen's Work: Hints for Beginners (London: Whittaker and Co., 1896), by A Practical Draughtsman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mechanical Drawing Problems for High Schools, Normal Schools and Vocational Schools (Peoria, IL: Manual Arts Press, c1918), by Edward Berg and Emil F. Kronquist (PDF at djm.cc)
• Practical Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design, Self Taught (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., 1907), by Charles J. Westinghouse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Isometric Drawing: A Treatise on Mechanical Illustrating Dealing With Typical Constructions and Outlining; A Course in the Art (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1911), by Alpha P. Jamison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nuevo Metodo de Trazado de Plantillas para Trabajos en Laminas Metalicas (in Spanish; Mexico: Secretaria de Educacion Publica, 1922), by Francisco Morán (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Treatise on Projection (London: R. Groomidge, 1840), by Peter Nicholson (page images at HathiTrust)

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