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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- Early works to 1800.

1. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

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Creator:: Skaife, Thomas
Date:: 1776
Physical Description:: iv, [8]-387 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Bowles's polite recreation in drawing : containing picturesque portraits of fashionable faces that frequent the genteel watering places : including fifty-two well known heads and the animals they resemble.

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Creator:: Bowles, Carington, 1724–1793
Date:: [1779]
Physical Description:: [1], [26] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The elements of linear perspective demonstrated by geometrical principles, and applied to the most general and concise modes of practice : with an introduction, containing so much of the elements of geometry as will render the whole rationale of perspective intelligible, without any other previous mathematical knowledge / by Edward Noble.

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Creator:: Noble, Edward
Date:: 1771
Physical Description:: 3, (iii)-cxvi (i.e. cxv), [1], 298 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts