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Martin, Benjamin,
1705-1782.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85089595
An appendix to the New art of surveying :
containing a new construction of a pantagraph, which renders it of universal use in reducing or enlarging plans, drawings, pictures, portraits, &c. in copies bearing any required proportion to the original /
by B. Martin.
London :
Printed for, and sold by the author, no. 171, Fleet-Street,
[between 1775 and 1780?]
[2], 13, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates :
illustrations ;
21 cm (8vo)
Date from advertisement, [1] p. at end, which lists the author's Microscopium pantometricum. According to ESTC this title was published ca. 1780. Milburn, Benjamin Martin, 1976, dates both works ca. 1775.
Plate engraved by W. Whitchurch.
A pantograph manufactured by Benjamin Martin (closely resembling the instrument depicted in the frontispiece to the present work) is also in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art. See link herewith.
English short title catalogue,
http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1342864
N30316
Pantograph.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097500
Surveying
18th century.
Drawing instruments
18th century.
Perspective
18th century.
Whitchurch, W.
(William),
active 18th century,
engraver.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010027740
England
London.
AC031297
OCLC
100 sml,dbm 10/91