The essentials of perspective, with illustrations drawn by the author;

LIBRARIESRESEARCHVPL912 9 23433 0813*'^ \ilH;n,ESSENTIALS OF PERSPECTIVETHEBY THE AUTHOR.IVITH ILLUSTRATIONS DRAIVNBYMILLERM, W.Industrial Art the Pennsylvania Museum, PhiladelphiaPrincipal of the School ofof6^ DISCARD^tJ.CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1887YORKNEWYORKnewItHELIBRARY[PUBLIC475873»HtLtViO'i.A8TDR,Fi-NDATi;**.TtLCEVCopyright, 1887, by Charles Scribner's SonsTROW'8NO BOOKBINOrNQ COMPAN".NEW TORK.(V\6l4-PREFACE."CALL this little Thebook Essentials of Perspective," because it seems to me that it contains as muchinformation about the science of which it treats as the artist or the draughtsman ever has occasion toImake use of, except under the most unusual conditions.I do not claim to have discovered any new thing, either in the principles or possible applications of per-spective science. But it has occurred to me, as I know it has occurred to many others with a similar ex-perience in teaching drawing, that a book on perspective, which should be exhaustive enough to redeem thestudy from the contempt with which it is too often treated by artists—an estimate which is, to a considerable" " "extent, justified by such presentations of it as ai-e usually found in the hand-" and text-books in commonuse—and yet fi'ee, as far as possible, difficultiesfrom the technical which the unscientific mind is pretty sureto encounter in the profounder treatises, might be of use.If, on glaucing through the book, some havethings are found to been left ...