The Young Painter's Maulstick; Being A Practical Treatise On Perspective; Containing Rules And Principles For Delineation On Planes, Treated so as to render the Art of Drawing correctly, easy of Attainment even to common Capacities; and entertaining at the same Time, from its Truth and Facility. Founded on the clear mechanical Process of Vignola And Sirigatti; United With The Theoretical Principles Of The Celebrated Dr. Brook Taylor. Addressed To Students In Drawing. By James Malton, Architect And Draftsman.
London :: Printed By V. Griffiths, No. 1, Paternoster Row; And Published For The Author, By Carpenter And Co. Old Bond Street., 1800.
Physical Description
[4], ii, xiv, 71, [1] p., 23 pl. (1 fold.) : illus. ; 30 cm. (Quarto. Or Folio?)
Contents
[T.p., dedic.] - Apology - Preface - Introduction - [Text of 'Practical Geometry' and 'Practical Perspective']; [colophon].
Responsibility Note
No plate is signed.
Each carries the publisher's imprint of James Malton, and the date (1800 January - October).
Although the printer is named on the title page as 'V. Griffiths', the colophon reads, 'S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, Holborn'.
References
ESTC, T90226
RIBA, Early printed, 3 (1999), no. 2019, p.1065-6
J. Archer, Literature of British domestic architecture (1985), 198.1 Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, from the library of J.R. Abbey (1953), no. 152, p.107.
Summary Note
The book is described on the final page as 'The First Part', but no other parts were published.
The plates are uncoloured aquatints. The book is described by Prideaux as 'Probably the earliest text-book of instruction to which the new process was applied'.
Reproductions
An electronic reproduction was published in 2003 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale). A microfilm version was published in 1986 (Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications).
Provenance
Author's presentation copy; acknowledged 31 December 1800 (RA Council Minutes, III, 84).
Subject
Perspective
Treatises - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Aquatints - Great Britain - 19th century