MALTON, Thomas.- A complete treatise on perspective, in theory and practice; on the true principes of Dr. Brook Taylor [...]. Embellised with a frontispiece, and forty-eight plates [...]. The second edition, corrected and improved; with large additions.
Estimation :
400 / 500
Adjudication :
380 €
Description
London, printed for the Author; and sold by Messr. Robson; Becket; Taylor; Holborn; Dilly; and by the Author, 1779. In-f° : front.-[4]-4-[8]-296-[8]-8 pp.; 48 pl. (foxing, some on plates, rare stains, some pp. and a few pl. slightly browned). Modern binding : half cloth, marbled paper boards, flat spine (boards rubbed, edges - partly - and corners strongly dulled). Second edition (1st ed. : 1775) of this work by the architectural draughtsman Th. Malton the elder (1726-1801) who exhibited to the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766 and 1768. Complete of the frontispiece and the 48 plates, mostly folding. This treatise is the earliest known commercially produced pop-up book because of some plates showing 3-dimensional paper mechanisms to aid in understanding perspective. At the end "A true case, between the author, of a late publication, his printers and paper merchants" relating the fire happened at Cox and Bigg's printers in 1776 which destroyed a copy of Malton's publication and the resulting problems he encountered.
# Not in Berlin Kat., Cicognara, Folwer.
Seconde édition de cet ouvr. sur la perspective illustré d'1 front. et de 48 pl., le plus souvent dépl., qqs-unes avec système mécanique. Demi-toile moderne (pet. défauts).
# Not in Berlin Kat., Cicognara, Folwer.
Seconde édition de cet ouvr. sur la perspective illustré d'1 front. et de 48 pl., le plus souvent dépl., qqs-unes avec système mécanique. Demi-toile moderne (pet. défauts).
