First Edition. 3 vol. in 2, 4to. Vol. I, 325 leaves, vol. II, 337 leaves; vol. III, 78 leaves of text, followed by 158 leaves of
Vocabulaires
Latin,
Italien,
Espagnol,
Anglois, et
Allemand, with separate signatures and pagination and 99 numbered engraved plates, folded and full-page, including 7 folded plates
containing the Monogrammes, Chiffres, Lettres Initiales, &c. des Peintres et Graveurs. At the foot of the last leaf before
the plates is the printer’s imprint: De l’imprimerie de
Quillau, rue du Fouare,
1771.
Quérard VIII, 123.
Kimball, page 99.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
60.0. Jefferson evidently had his copy bound in 2 volumes. The Library of Congress copy is bound in the usual way in three volumes.
Charles François Roland Le Virloys, 1716-1772, French architect, was for a time architect to the King of Prussia.
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Kirby’s perspective of architecture on Brook Taylor’s principles.
2. v.
g. fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. BB, as above.
KIRBY,
John Joshua.
The Perspective of Architecture. A Work entirely new; deduced from the Principles of Dr. Brook Taylor; and performed by Two
Rules only of Universal Application. Begun by Command of His present Majesty, when Prince of Wales. By Joshua Kirby, Designer in Perspective to His Majesty. [-Part the Second.]
London: Published by
Jos. Kirby,
Feb. 21
st 1761
.
NA2710 .K6 fol
2 vol. Imperial folio. 76 leaves of text, engraved frontispiece by L. Ryland after Kirby, engraved head-piece by C. Grignon after S. Wale, engraved cul-de-lampe by T. Chambars after J. Wale, LXXIII numbered engraved plates, by A. Walker, F. Patton, J. Fougeron, P. Mazell and others, some with the imprint Published by
Jos. Kirby,
Feb. 21st. 1761. This work was published in 2 volumes; the Library of Congress copy
is bound in 1 volume, without a title-leaf, and with the title for the
second
part in its place at the beginning.
Lowndes III, 1278.
Kimball, page 95.
Entered without price by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue.
Jefferson ordered a copy of Brook Taylor’s treatise on perspective (to be sent in boards) from John Stockdale in a letter dated to him from Paris, September 13, 1786.
“The method was that of parallel perspective with the vanishing point far to one side, as used in Jefferson’s bird’s eye view
of the University of Virginia described later among the drawings in possession of the University.”--Kimball.
John Joshua Kirby, 1716-1774, English painter, landscape gardener and architect, was clerk of the works at Kew Palace. He was secretary, and
for a short time president of the Incorporated Society of Artists.
Brook Taylor, 1685-1731, English mathematician, the inventor of “Taylor’s theorum”, published his
Linear Perspective
in 1715, and his
New Principles of Linear Perspective
in 1719. These principles are presented in Kirby’s work in a simplified form.
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Mitchell’s Perspectives of buildings in Engl
d & Scotl
d.
gr. fol.
Fr.
Eng.
1815 Catalogue, page 130, no. V, Mitchell’s Perspectives of Buildings in England and Scotland, and his Gothic Architecture,
Fr. Eng. gr. fol.
MITCHELL,
Robert.
Plans, and Views in Perspective, with Descriptions, of Buildings erected in England and Scotland: and also an Essay, to elucidate
the Grecian, Roman and Gothic Architecture, accompanied with Designs. By Robert Mitchell, Architect. Plans, Descriptions, et Vues en Perspective, des Edifices erigés en Angleterre et en Ecosse: suivis d’un Essai
sur l’Architecture Grecque, Romaine et Gothique, avec
