Excerpt from The Drawing Guide: A Manual of Instruction in Industrial Drawing, Designed to Accompany
While we regard it, however, as better for most industrial drawings, especially for school purposes, than Isometrical Perspective, yet the latter has some very valuable adapta tions; and, as it can be easily applied by those who under stand Cabinet Perspective, we have given an exposition of its principles in the Appendix to the present volume.
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