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| People and organisations | Count |
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| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 7 |
| Field, George (1777?-1854) | 5 |
| Boyle, Robert (1627-1691) | 2 |
| Ostell, William | 2 |
| Benson, William (Architect) | 1 |
| Jennings, Arthur Seymour (1860-1928) | 1 |
| Millar, Andrew (1707-1768) | 1 |
| Newman, James (1757-1835) | 1 |
| Smith, John (1673-1680) | 1 |
| Swaisland, Charles | 1 |
Rudiments of the painters' art : or, a grammar of colouring, applicable to operative painting, decorative architecture, and the arts : with coloured illustrations and practical instructions concerning the modes and materials of painting, etc
Field, George (1777?-1854); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Ostell, William
1850
Printed by William Ostell, Hart Street, Bloomsbury, London.
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
Smith, John (1673-1680); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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.
Rudiments of the painters' art : or, a grammar of colouring, applicable to operative painting, decorative architecture, and the arts : with coloured illustrations and practical instructions concerning the modes and materials of painting, etc
Field, George (1777?-1854); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Ostell, William
1850
Printed by William Ostell, Hart Street, Bloomsbury, London.
Valuable secrets in arts and trades: or, Approved directions from the best artists. containing, upwards of one thousand approved receipts. For the various methods of engraving on brass, copper, or steel. Of the composition of metals of the composition of varnishes of mastich, cements, sealing-wax, &c. &c. Of the glass manufactory, various imitations of precious stones, and French paste of colours and painting, useful for carriage painters of painting on paper of compositions for limners of transparent colours colours to dye skins or gloves to colour or varnish copperplate prints. Of painting on glass of colours of all sorts for oil, water, and crayons of preparing the lapis lazuli, to make ultramarine of the art of gilding the art of dying wood, bones, &c. The art of casting in moulds of making useful sorts of ink. The art of making wines of the composition of vinegars of liquors, essential oils, &c. Of the confectionary business. The art of preparing snuffs, &c. Of taking out spots and stains. Art of fishing, bird-catching, &c. And other subjects, curious, entertaining, and useful
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
[1800?]
A translation of the anonymous 'Secrets concernant les arts et métiers'. With a preliminary advertisement leaf. Barker moved to the above address sometime after 1796 (Moxon) Lwe date this as [1...
Experiments and considerations touching colours : first occasionally written, among some other essays, to a friend, and now suffer'd to come abroad as The beginning of an experimental history of colours
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1670
This 2nd ed. "has been completely reset, but follows the 1664 edition sheet for sheet and page for page"--J.F. Fulton, A bibl. of the Hon. Robert Boyle, no. 58.
Principles of the science of colour, concisely stated to aid and promote their useful application in the decorative arts
Benson, William (Architect)
1868 [actually 1886]
Rudiments of the painters' art; or, A grammar of colouring : applicable to operative painting, decorative architecture, and the arts : with coloured illustrations and practical instructions concerning the modes and materials of painting, etc
Field, George (1777?-1854); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1858
Scumbling & colour glazing : a practical handbook for house painters, coach painters and others : illustrated by 48 examples executed in paint
Millar, Andrew (1707-1768); Jennings, Arthur Seymour (1860-1928); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1909
With 48 examples of paint on 12 pages, 4 per page. Commercial and trade advertisements on prelimary paging and pages iv-xv. Pages i and xv are on front and rear pastedown, respectively.
Chromatics, : or, An essay on the analogy and harmony of colours
Field, George (1777?-1854); Valpy, Abraham John (1787-1854); Newman, James (1757-1835); Swaisland, Charles; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1817
Anonymous. By George Field. See Mansell. Pre-1956 imprints, v. 171, p. 572. In most copies the plates and most illustrations are hand-coloured, showing various juxtapositions of colours. 250 copie...
Experimenta et considerationes de coloribus : primùm ex occasione, inter alias quasdam diatribas, ad amicum scripta, nunc verò in lucem prodire passa; ceu, Initium historiæ experimentalis de coloribus
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)
1680
Title vignette: S. de Tournes' device. Heitz 82.