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Creator:
Green, Benjamin Richard, 1808-1876
Title(s):

The grammar of form.

Published/Created:
[London] : National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor, &c., and sold at the Depository, Sanctuary, Westminster, [1855?]
Physical Description:
XXIV leaves : all ill. : 29 x 38 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2006 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Lithographed throughout, by Benjamin Richard Green and James Fahey.
Cover title
Another edition of this work was published (ca. 1870?) by Dobbs, Kidd, & Co., with title: The grammar of form : a series of examples for students in drawing, arranged progressively to illustrate the different appearances in the forms of objects, caused by change of place, position and disance
A review of this title appeared in The Art Journal, 1855.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original gilt-stamped green cloth.
Subject Terms:
Architecture -- Details.
Drawing -- Technique -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Lithography -- Specimens -- 1855.
National Society of for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church (Great Britain) -- Publisher
Perspective -- Technique -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Form/Genre:
Drawing books.
Contributors:
Fahey, James, 1804-1885, ill.
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