Cyclopedia of Drawing - A General Reference Work on Drawing and Allied Subjects for Architects, Mechanical Engineers, Draftsmen, Carpenters, Stone Cutters, Sheet Metal Workers, Teachers, Students, and All Others Interested in Drawing #262211

The Cyclopedia of Drawing has been prepared with the special object of giving the beginner and the self-taught practical man, a working knowledge of the principles which underlie all branches of drawing so he may know hoe to read and make drawings intelligently.<br><br>The importance of drawing in tho general plan of education is receiving wider and wider recognition. Few are the public schools which do not now teach it oven in tho primary departments. It is the universal language in which the peoples of all lands may communicate with each other, - and it is essentially the language of the architect and the engineer. Through it he communicates his noble designs, or. his wonderful inventions, to his workmen for execution. As a cultural study drawing is of great value to every person who would lay any claim to a liberal education, teaching symmetry, beauty and exactness, and training the eye not only to see but to observe.<br><br>A broad knowledge of drawing is therefore of vital importance to the draftsman, mechanic or young engineering student who is ambitious to advance in his chosen field. Unfortunately class room or even correspondence instruction is in many cases out of question, and thus many promising young men are left entirely without the means of gratifying their ambition.