A treatise of japaning and varnishing, being a compleat discovery of those arts. With the best way of making all sorts of varnish for japan, wood, prints, or pictures. The method of guilding, burnishing, and lackering, with the art of guilding, separating, and refining metals: and of painting mezzo-tinto-prints. Also rules for counterfeiting tortoise-shell, and marble, and for staining or dying wood, ivory, and horn. Together with above an hundred distinct patterns for japan-work, in imitation of the Indians, for tables, stands, frames, cabinets, boxes, &c. Curiously engraven on 24 large copper-plates. By George Parker, varnisher and japaner (oversize)
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Title: A treatise of japaning and varnishing, being a compleat discovery of those arts. With the best way of making all sorts of varnish for japan, wood, prints, or pictures. The method of guilding, burnishing, and lackering, with the art of guilding, separating, and refining metals: and of painting mezzo-tinto-prints. Also rules for counterfeiting tortoise-shell, and marble, and for staining or dying wood, ivory, and horn. Together with above an hundred distinct patterns for japan-work, in imitation of the Indians, for tables, stands, frames, cabinets, boxes, &c. Curiously engraven on 24 large copper-plates. By George Parker, varnisher and japaner (oversize)
Classmark: Bedford Collection K046
Publisher: printed for, and sold by the author, at Mr. Richard Wood's house over against the Theater in Oxford
Publication city: Oxford
Date(s): in the year MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
Language: English
Size and medium: [8], 84 pages., 24 numbered leaves of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/742533
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020013693205181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
By George Parker and by John Stalker, whose name appears on title page of other editions of this work. This variant has only Parker on title page.
One of at least three imprint variants of this edition.
Plates comprise more than 60 chinoiserie designs of flowers, birds, insects, animals and landscapes.
Indexed in: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K046: loose excerpt from Sotheby's sale catalogue, 28/11/2011, for this item, lot 49.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K046: contemporary lacquered [japanned] full calf with Chinese or Japanese pictorial decoration [worn], re-backed.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection K046: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORJ/1. MS. inscription on front pastedown: Colworth Library. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: William Lee Antonie (1764-1815, British MP, of Colworth House, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire). Sold as lot 49 in the The Ronald A. Lee Collection [i.e. Ronald Alfred Lee, 1913-2000, antique furniture dealer] at Sotheby's London on 28 November 2001. MS. annotation on front pastedown: repaired 1822.
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