Note 1 — CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1] (continued 3)

"This work is in quarto, containing 172 pages, and 51 plates, in the whole; with a frontispiece designed and drawn by Mr. Hogarth. 'Tis a humourous piece, shewing the absurdities a person may be liable to, who attempts to draw without having some knowledge in perspective. As the production of that great genius, it is entertaining; and, though abounding with the grossest absurdities possible, may pass and please; otherwise I think it is a palpable insult offered to common sense, and tacitly calling the artists a parcel of egregious blockheads. There is not a finished piece in the book, but the mason's yard and the landscapes; so that I question if the whole of the plates were forty pounds expence. It was first printed for himself at Ipswich, dedicated to Mr. Hogarth, and published in the year 1754."

Malton, Appendix to Treatise on Perspective, p. 106.