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 Info | Oxford : 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 |
| Supplemental Content | https://search.proquest.com/docview/2248509478 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early English books online. ^A888680 |
| General note | Attributed to John Stalker and George Parker. cf. Wing. |
| General note | Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library. |
| References | Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) S5187B |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2520:14) |
| Stock number | CL0037000105 ProQuest Information and Learning. 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |