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1. The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing : a new work : elegantly engraved on eighty quarto copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; wherein the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

The artist's vade mecum : being the whole art of drawing : a new work : elegantly engraved on eighty quarto copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; wherein the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
8 p., [80] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A new drawing book of heads, from Castiglione : very useful for youth to draw after.

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Date:
[176-?]
Physical Description:
6 leaves : all ill. ; 17 x 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Flower painting made easy : being a collection of correct outlines after nature / by Tho. Parkinson painter ; and well engrav'd on 72 copper plates, ...

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Creator:
Parkinson, Thomas, active 1769-1789
Date:
[1760?]
Physical Description:
[72] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The artist's vade-mecum : being the whole art of drawing taught in a new work : elegantly engraved on one hundred folio copper plates : containing great variety of examples in every branch of that noble art : as parts of the face, heads, hands, feet, academy, antiques, and groups of figures, beasts, birds, insects, flowers, fruit, shells, ornaments, buildings, landscapes ... / collected from the works of the greatest masters ; to which is prefixed an essay on drawing ; with introductory rules for the use of learners ; in which the first principles of that useful and noble art are explained in such manner that it may be attained in a short time without a master.

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Date:
1776 [i.e. 177-?]
Physical Description:
8 p., [100] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The compleat drawing-book : containing many and curious specimens ... : with outlines to each plate ... : the whole neatly engrav'd on one hundred and thirteen copper plates, from Le Clerc, Le Brun, Berghem, Barlow, Chatelin, ... : to which are annexed proper instructions to youth ...

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Date:
1757
Physical Description:
[1], 8, [1] p., [100], [20] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Introduction to drawing ships.

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Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
8 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 24 x 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts