The Description and Use Of A New Instrument Called, An Architectonic Sector. By Which Any Part of Architecture may be Drawn With Facility And Exactness.
London:: Printed for Joshua Kirby, Designer in Perspective to his Majesty, By R. Francklin, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; And Sold by T. Payne, at the Mews-Gate; Messrs. Knapton and Horsefield, in Ludgate-Street; Messrs. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; T. Longman, in Paster-Noster-Row; T. Davies, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; and J. Gretton, in Bond-Street,, 1761.
Physical Description
[2], 82 p., 25 pl.; 562 mm. (Broadsheet).
Contents
[T.-p.] - [Text] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
Most plates are unsigned. Five are signed as drawn by J. Gwynn and engraved by P. Mazell; six, as engraved by J. Fougeron.
References
RIBA, Early printed books, 2 (1995), 1674; E. Harris and N. Savage, British Architectural Books (1990), 398; M. Hambly, Drawing instruments, 1580-1980 (1988), p. 137-9.
ESTC, T219912
Reproductions
A microfilm version was published in 2006 (Woodbridge, Conn.: Primary Source Microfilm [imprint of Thomson-Gale]).
Provenance
Presented by Josiah Taylor, architectural bookseller; acknowledged 20 March 1802 (RAA Council Minutes III, 134).
Binding Note
20th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; red morocco spine-label lettered 'Kirby's Use Of The Architec. Sector'. Bound with A Catalogue Of Modern Books On Architecture ... On Sale At J. Taylor's Architectural Library (n.d.).
Subject
Architectural drawing - Techniques - Instruments - Sectors - Drawing instruments - Tools and equipment - Architectural orders - Perspective - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Manuals - Instructional materials - Great Britain - 18th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 18th century