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.

Author/creator Stalker, John
Other author Parker, George, 17th cent.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford : printed for, and sold by the author, at Mr. Richard Wood's house over against the Theater in Oxford, in the year MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]
Description[8], 84 p., [22] leaves of plates
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SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteAttributed to John Stalker and George Parker. cf. Wing.
General noteReproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
References Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) S5187B
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2520:14)
Stock numberCL0037000105 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106

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