Thomas Malton, the elderFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Malton, the elder (1726–1801) was an English architectural draughtsman and writer on geometry. Thomas Malton the elder's Treatise on Perspective contains the first known 3-dimensional pop-up to appear in a commercially produced book. This pop-up, as well as the others in Treatise on Perspective were used to help artists and architects understand and apply the concept of perspective to their work.
Thomas Malton, the elder (1726–1801) was an English architectural draughtsman and writer on geometry. Thomas Malton the elder's Treatise on Perspective contains the first known 3-dimensional pop-up to appear in a commercially produced book. This pop-up, as well as the others in Treatise on Perspective were used to help artists and architects understand and apply the concept of perspective to their work.