THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: Volume I – By Leonardo da Vinci, Compiled and edited from the original manuscripts by Jean Paul Richter.

This volume, which contains all of Leonardo’s writings on aspects of painting, includes discussions of such basic scientific areas as the structure of the eye and vision, perspective, the science of light and shade, the perspective of disappearance, theory of color, perspective of color, and proportions and movement of the human figure. 

Soft cover:  367 pages

Publisher:  Dover Publications, Inc., New York

ISBN:  9780486225722