The art of painting in oil. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery; with the best and most approved rules for the preparing, mixing, and working of oil-colours. The whole Treatise being so complete, and so exactly fitted to the meanest Capacity, that all Persons may be able, by these Directions, to paint in Oil Colours, all Manner of Timber-Work; such as Posts, Pales, Palisadoes, Gates, Doors, or any Thing else that requires either Use, Beauty, or Preservation from the Violence or Injury of the Weather. In which are also particularly laid down all the several Circumstances required in Painting of Sun-Dials, Printed Pictures, Sash-Windows, &c. in Oil Colours. The ninth edition, revised and corrected. To which is added, The whole Art and Mystery of Colouring Maps, and other Prints, with Water Colours. By John Smith, C. M
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Type of record: Book
Title: The art of painting in oil. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery; with the best and most approved rules for the preparing, mixing, and working of oil-colours. The whole Treatise being so complete, and so exactly fitted to the meanest Capacity, that all Persons may be able, by these Directions, to paint in Oil Colours, all Manner of Timber-Work; such as Posts, Pales, Palisadoes, Gates, Doors, or any Thing else that requires either Use, Beauty, or Preservation from the Violence or Injury of the Weather. In which are also particularly laid down all the several Circumstances required in Painting of Sun-Dials, Printed Pictures, Sash-Windows, &c. in Oil Colours. The ninth edition, revised and corrected. To which is added, The whole Art and Mystery of Colouring Maps, and other Prints, with Water Colours. By John Smith, C. M
Classmark: Bedford Collection G046
Creator(s): Smith, John (1673-1680)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for J. Bew, No. 28, in Pater-Noster Row
Publication city: London
Date(s): MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
Language: English
Size and medium: [8],112p.,plate
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/732825
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019964590505181
Description
Bedford Collection G046 copy has torn out leaf between contents and page 1, possibly the flyleaf with annotations subsequently bound in front? Frontispiece by Foot is present.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G046: quarter calf, re-backed, marbled paper over boards [worn].
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G046: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: JDC/2. Nineteenth-century? MS. annotation on front flyleaves describing the recipe: To colour rooms green [etc...].
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