Explanation and application of elements and rules of perspective. Specially adapted for class instruction.

First edition. Brown cloth 8vo, 95pp, including 62 illustrations. Very Good with moderate mottling to covers and soil to endpapers, otherwise a tight, clean copy. Contemporary gift inscription and signature to the front flyleaf and first blank, contents otherwise unmarked. Perspectival gilt vignette on the cover, which we find particularly delightful. A sophisticated work covering technical elements of perspective and geometry, written in 1882 by an underrecognized female educator who died at 42. Christina Sullivan (Christine Gordon Sullivan, 1857-1899) was raised in Cincinnati public schools, where Frobelian influence was strong in the late 19th century. In addition to private art instruction, she attended Cooper Union for a year before returning to Cincinnati, where she was appointed Assistant Supervisor of Drawing in 1879, then Superintendent of Drawing in 1884. “Miss Sullivan had no leisure finding important work for all her time. She had a talent for hard work. In 1882 she publis