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Date 1786

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Subject Terms Engraving -- Specimens -- 1786.

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. The sea of Marmara or Propontis : with the straits of Constantinople and of Gallipoli / by Wm. Faden ...

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Creator:: Faden, William, 1749–1836
Date:: Jany. 11th, 1786
Physical Description:: 1 map : mounted on linen ; 58 x 102 cm, on sheet 59 x 105 cm., folded to 19 x 14 cm. in folder 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wale ... / by Daniel Paterson.

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Creator:: Paterson, Daniel, 1738–1825
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: viii, xxiv, 293, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 20 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. An actual survey of the Great Post Road : from London to Chester, Park-Gate, & Holy-Head / by Peter Bell ...

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Creator:: Bell, Peter
Date:: 1786
Physical Description:: 1 atlas ([20] leaves) : 19 hand col. maps ; 34 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts