Description

Peter Halt’s Perspectiuische Reiss Kunst belongs to the great German tradition of practical perspective that runs from Duerer onwards: how to set a horizon, how to foreshorten a solid, how to raise a building on paper so that it stands. The plates carry the constructions step by step, for the use of masons, joiners and painters.The volume opens with a superb engraved architectural title-page dated MDCXXV, printed at Augsburg by David Franck.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1625 Augsburg (David Franck) edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.