A scholarly discussion of the history of anamorphic art. Published in the '70s this book does not investigate in any technical way the geometry behind the transformations (although it does describe the history of some disputes on the subject). Because this is a book, the impact of the anamorphic art, which must be viewed in a special way or from an unusual viewpoint, is much diluted. An interesting bit of mirror anamorphic art involves the cylindrical mirror simultaneously obscuring and producing an image. The historical example in the book is that of a skull and a portrait of Charles I of England.

Both cylindrical and conical mirrors have been used for mirror anamorphic art.