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Brook Taylor
(Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731)
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Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: Dr. Brook Taylor's Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing Upon a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, As They Appear to the Eye (new edition; London: M. Taylor, 1835), ed. by Joseph Jopling
Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: Linear Perspective; New Principles of Linear Perspective (2 books published in 1715 and 1719, bound together; some figures and first 16 pages of "Linear Perpective" main text bound out of order) (page images at Sapienza Digital Library)
Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: New Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing on a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, in a More General and Simple Method Than Has Been Done Before (third edition; London: J. Ward, 1749), also by John Colson (multiple formats at Google)
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Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: A compleat treatise on perspective, in theory and practice, on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor : made clear, in theory, by various moveable schemes, and diagrams, and reduced to practice, in the most familiar and intelligent manner ... : containing diagrams, views, and original designs, in architecture, &c. neatly engraved : all originals, invented, delineated, and, great part, engraved (Printed for the author, and sold by Messrs. Robson, in Bond-street : Becket, Adelphi, Strand : Taylor, near Great Turn-stile, Holborn : Dilly, in the Poultry : and by the author, No. 56, Poland-street, Oxford Road, near the Pantheon, 1778), also by Thomas Malton (page images at HathiTrust)
Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: Highmore on perspective (Printed for A. Millar, and J. Nourse..., 1763), also by Joseph Highmore and James Basire (page images at HathiTrust)
Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: Nouveaux principes de la perspective linéaire (Chez Westein, 1757), also by Westein, Antoine Rivoire, Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste de Poilly, Isaac Newton, and Patrick Murdoch (page images at HathiTrust)
Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: The perspective of architecture : in two parts : a work entirely new, deduced from the principles of Dr. Brook Taylor and performed by two rules only of universal application ... (Printed for the author ... by R. Francklin ..., and sold by T. Payne ... [and 6 others], 1761), also by John Joshua Kirby, Richard Francklin, William Woollett, and William Hogarth (page images at HathiTrust)
Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: Practice of perspective : being the second book of Dr. Brook Taylor's perspective made easy, & c. (Printed by W. Craighton, for the author :, 1755), also by John Joshua Kirby and W. Craighton (page images at HathiTrust)
Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: 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 (Printed for the author, at his House in Wilde Court, near Great Queen-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields: and sold by Mr. Nourse, facing Catharine-Street, in the Strand; and by Mr. Lacey, the corner of St. Martin's Court, St. Martin's Lane, 1761), also by Daniel Fournier, J. Lacy, Charles Nourse, and fl. 1758-1761 Tournier (page images at HathiTrust)
Taylor, Brook, 1685-1731: The young painter's maulstick : being a practical treatise on perspective, containing rules and principles for delineation on planes ... : founded on the clear mechanical process of Vignola and Sirigatti, united with the theoretic principles of the celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor : addressed to students in drawing (Printed by V. Griffiths ... and published for the author by Carpenter and Co. ..., 1800), also by James Malton (page images at HathiTrust)
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