Description

The author, Brooklyn, 1910. Hardcover, xiii, 175, [1] pp; illustrations, diagrams; 27 cm. Second edition (per preface statement: "Revised for the second edition"). Originally published in 1908. In acceptable+ condition. Quarter green cloth over olive green paper covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Bumping and nicking to paper along edges and corners of boards. Nicking and fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine and along hinges; spine cloth rubbed and small paper label remnant at lower spine. Binding lightly shaken but intact. Front pastedown shows abrasion from removed label; previous owner name on front endpaper and "700 No. 1" written in ink on front pastedown. Interior pages show mild age toning with a few leaves darkened from long laid in papers (now removed); otherwise clean and unmarked. A classic early twentieth century drawing manual by Dora Miriam Norton (Instructor in Perspective, Sketching and Color at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn). Presents the principles and methods of freehand perspective as applied to common objects, interiors, buildings, and landscapes. Includes illustrated problems and step by step demonstrations. Widely used at normal schools and art training programs in the early 1900s. Contents include: General Directions; Pencil Measurement and the Picture Plane; The Ellipse; A Cylinder and a Cylindrical Object; An Object Above the Eye and the Cone Principle; A Cream Jug; A Time Study; A Group of Cylindrical Objects; Cylindrical Objects Grouped with Fruit; A Group of Objects from Memory or Invention; The Cylinder Cone and Ball Grouped A Problem for Original Study; The Study of Straight Line Objects; Drawing the Book in Two Positions; The Book with a Cylindrical Object; The Cylinder and Rectangular Block A Problem for Original Study; The Further Study of Straight Line Objects; A Cube at Angles with the Picture Plane; The Cube in Two Different Positions; A Book at Angles to the Picture Plane; Two Books at Different Angles to the Picture Plane; The Actual Center of the Circle and Measurement into the Picture by Parallel Lines; Books with a Cylindrical Object; The Study and Drawing of a House; A Building from the Photograph or a Print; Upper Forms Helpful in Understanding the House The Square Frame; The Square Pyramid and Square Plinth; The Square Frame Leaning on the Rectangular Block A Problem for Original Study; Cylindrical Objects When Not Vertical; A Group of Flower Pots; The Circular Frame in a Square Frame; A Round Window; The Clock A Problem; The Arch; Interiors A Room Parallel to the Picture Plane; Interiors Continued A Room at Angles to the Picture Plane; Further Studies of Interiors; A Chair; The Hexagonal Plinth in Two Positions; Interior with a Tiled Floor; The Triangular Prism and Frame A Problem for Original Study; The Study of Parallel Perspective; A Street from the Photograph; Exceptions to the Use of the Flat Picture Plane; Shadows; Out of Doors Work.