The art of painting in oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery. Containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl colours. The whole Treatise being so full Compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest Capacity, that all persons whatsoever, may be able by these Directions, to paint in Oyl-Colours all manner of Timber work; such as Posts, Pails, Pallisadoes, Gates, Doors, or any thing else that requires either Use, Beauty, or Preservation, from the violence or Injury of the Weather. In which is also particularly laid down, all the several Circumstances required in Painting of Sun-Dials, Printed Pictures, Shash-Windows, &c. In Oily-Colours. The third impression with some alterations, and many Matters added, which are not to be found in the Two former Editions. To which is added, The whole Art and Mystery of Colouring Maps, and other Prints with Water Colours By John Smith C. M. Licensed, Rob Midgely
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Type of record: Book
Title: The art of painting in oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery. Containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl colours. The whole Treatise being so full Compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest Capacity, that all persons whatsoever, may be able by these Directions, to paint in Oyl-Colours all manner of Timber work; such as Posts, Pails, Pallisadoes, Gates, Doors, or any thing else that requires either Use, Beauty, or Preservation, from the violence or Injury of the Weather. In which is also particularly laid down, all the several Circumstances required in Painting of Sun-Dials, Printed Pictures, Shash-Windows, &c. In Oily-Colours. The third impression with some alterations, and many Matters added, which are not to be found in the Two former Editions. To which is added, The whole Art and Mystery of Colouring Maps, and other Prints with Water Colours By John Smith C. M. Licensed, Rob Midgely
Other titles: Art of painting in oil
Classmark: Bedford Collection G058
Creator(s): Smith, John (1673-1680)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: printed for Samuel Crouch, at the Corner of Popes-Head-Alley in Cornhill
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1701
Language: English
Size and medium: [8],110,[2]p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/733882
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019976095005181
Description
With a final advertisement leaf.
Bedford Collection G058 copy is wanting final advertisement leaf.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G058: loose excerpt from sale catalogue for the fourth edition of this title, 1705.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G058: marbled paper wrappers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G058: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: JDC/1. Faint calculations in pencil on final page.
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