The essential of perspective

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THE ESSENTIALS OF PERSPECTIVE
IVITH ILLUSTRATIONS

DRAIVN BY THE AUTHOR.

BY

M,

W. MILLER
Art of the Pennsylvania

Principal of the School of Industrial

Museum, Philadelphia

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1887

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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new YORK

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Copyright, 1887, by Charles Scribner's Sons

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PREFACE. book "

CALL

this little

The Essentials

of Perspective," because it it

seems to

me

that

it

contains as

much

I
I

information about the science of which

treats as the artist or the

draughtsman ever has occasion to

make

use

of,

except under the most unusual conditions. in the principles or possible applications of per-

do not claim to have discovered any new thing, either

spective science.

But

it

has occurred to me, as I

know

it

has occurred to

many

others with a similar ex-

perience in teaching drawing, that a book on perspective, which should be exhaustive enough to redeem the

study from the contempt with which extent, justified

it is

too often treated it by

artists

—an

estimate which

is,

to a considerable

by such presentations as far as possible,

of

as

ai-e

usually found in the " hand-" and " text-books " in difficulties common

use

— and yet
If,

fi'ee,

from the technical might be of use. which the

unscientific

mind

is

pretty sure

to encounter in the profounder treatises,

on glaucing through the book, some things are found to have been

left

out which are usually intro-

duced into a work of this this kind, I ask the reader to look twice before he finds fault

with the omission, as
I

weeding out of what have seemed, to me, unessential