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Thanks mrcoggy for posting this delightful pair of books that deserve to be savoured by every aspiring artist (yes even the 3D ones!).

The cover pic as shown is not that of this edition (notice it fails to mention Elements of Perspective). The PDF file contains two books:
(Pages 1-204)The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners (1857)
(Pages 205+) The Elements of Perspective, Arranged for the Use of Schools and Intended to be Read in Connection with the First Three Books of Euclid (1859)

This is a reproduction of the 1912 reprint of the 1907 edition of this work.

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Ruskin&printable=yes

This book comes to you courtesy of Microsoft, who digitized it. In fact, they keep reminding you of their largesse on just about every bl**dy page - in upper case. Anyone who takes the time and trouble to delete these idiotic defacements from the book will earn the undying gratitude of book lovers everywhere.

Note: Without deprecating mrcoggy's efforts, if you dislike Rapid$hare as much as I do, you can download this book (in a variety of formats incl. PDF) directly here, using a multiple-thread downloader such as FlashGet for extra speed:
http://www.archive.org/details/perspectiveele00ruskuoft
No download timer!

My guess is that you can expect to see many more Internet Archive titles posted at Avaxhome in the near future...

Yes, that's a dead folder.

This is the correct folder:

http://rapidshare.com/users/87YVOD

Thanks for finding so much about the book. I struggled to find any other info.

You guys Mrcoggy and Maxand have got me all excited. Thanks for your efforts !

You guys Mrcoggy and Maxand have got me all excited. Thanks for your efforts !