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Inscription: For the Curious YOUNG GENTLEMEN and LADIES, / That study and practise the noble and commendable ART of DRAWING, / COLOURING and JAPANNING, / A New and Compleat / DRAWING-BOOK; / Consisting of Variety of CLASSES, viz. / Whole Figures in divers Positions, and all the several Parts of the Human Body / from Head to Foot; Light, airy loose Landskips; Perspective Views of Sea- / Ports, Forts, Ruins, &c. / Being the close Study, for a Series of Years, of / The late Mr. LENS, / Miniature-Painter, and Drawing-Master to Christ's-Hospital. / In Sixty-two Copper-Plates, engraved by himself. / Design'd chiefly for young Beginners, and now first published from the Author's Originals, very necessary and useful / for all Drawing-Schools, Boarding-Schools, &c. &c. / TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, / An INTRODUCTION to DRAWING; / Containing a Description of the Instruments and their respective Uses, and the Materials proper for Drawing; Rules / for managing the Pencil, and the best Method for attaining Perfection in the ART; with Instructions by which a young Practi- / tioner shall be enabled to form a Judgement as well of his own Performances as those of others; with easy, proper, and neces- / ary Lessons for him at his first Entrance. Also the Names of the Colours used, with Instructions to temper and mix them, / and fit them for Painting. Likewise, Colours for washing Landskips, or Prints of any Kind; with plain and easy Rules for / the Ladies Japanning. / Translated from the French of Monsieur GERRARD DE LAIRESSE, and / improved with Extracts from C.A. DU FRESNOY. / LONDON: Printed for B. DICKINSON, at the Corner of Bell-Savage-Inn, on Ludgate-Hill. 1751. //