A Treatise on Shades and Shadows, and Linear Perspective. Second Edition.
by DAVIES (Charles):
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- first
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, Wiley & Putnam, Collins, Keese, & Co...., 1838. Davies' work was first published in 1832. He was Professor of Mathematics at West Point Military Academy. When the first edition was published, the reviewer in The New England Magazine for May 1832, observed, "No man should presume to criticise even a painting or engraving unless he has studied perspective.... Mr. Davies's book...is the best of its kind, yet published, and the demonstrations are as plain and concise, almost, as the subject will admit." Small wonder, then, that an engineer who was also, though an amateur, a highly-accomplished and, indeed, historically-important architect would have a book like this in his collection. John B. Clarke, Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men (1882), pp. [9]-13; and Bryant F. Tolles, New Hampshire Architecture: An Illustrated Guide (1979), p. 91.
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- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3949
- Title
- A Treatise on Shades and Shadows, and Linear Perspective. Second Edition.
- Author
- DAVIES (Charles):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- New York, Wiley & Putnam, Collins, Keese, & Co...., 1838
- Keywords
- mathematics painting prose
- Bookseller catalogs
- mathematics;
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