The Met CollectionSearch ArtA Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, for the Use of Mechanics and Schools in which the definitions and rules of geometry are familiarily explained, the practical problems are arranged from the most simple to the more complex, and in their description technicalities are avoided as much as possible; with illustrations for drawing plans, sections and elevations of buildings and machinery: an introduction to isometrical drawing, and an essay on linear perspective and shadows

A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, for the Use of Mechanics and Schools in which the definitions and rules of geometry are familiarily explained, the practical problems are arranged from the most simple to the more complex, and in their description technicalities are avoided as much as possible; with illustrations for drawing plans, sections and elevations of buildings and machinery: an introduction to isometrical drawing, and an essay on linear perspective and shadows

Author Written, illustrated and published by William Minifie American

Printer John D. Toy American

Printer Stereotyping by Fielding Lucas, Baltimore American

1849

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Title: A Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, for the Use of Mechanics and Schools in which the definitions and rules of geometry are familiarily explained, the practical problems are arranged from the most simple to the more complex, and in their description technicalities are avoided as much as possible; with illustrations for drawing plans, sections and elevations of buildings and machinery: an introduction to isometrical drawing, and an essay on linear perspective and shadows
Author: Written, illustrated and published by William Minifie (American, active Baltimore, mid 19th century)
Printer: John D. Toy (Baltimore, Maryland)
Printer: Stereotyping by Fielding Lucas, Baltimore
Date: 1849
Medium: Illustrations: steel engraving, stereotype printing
Dimensions: 10 1/16 x 6 1/2 x 1 in. (25.5 x 16.5 x 2.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Object Number: 17.500.2
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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