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 (Classic Reprint)
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 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from 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 IF the Antiquity of an Art Can advan???e its credit and reputation, this of the Pencil may ju ly claim it; for although we cannot trace it from its Original, yet-wefind'smany valuable. Pieces extant in time of Alexander the Great. The Grecian's (who always entou raged Learning and Ingenuity had [o'cgreat an honour for: 2this Art that they ...
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Excerpt from 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 IF the Antiquity of an Art Can advan???e its credit and reputation, this of the Pencil may ju ly claim it; for although we cannot trace it from its Original, yet-wefind'smany valuable. Pieces extant in time of Alexander the Great. The Grecian's (who always entou raged Learning and Ingenuity had [o'cgreat an honour for: 2this Art that they ordained, That Gentlemens Sons and Freeborn' Ihould be firl't fent to a painting-school, to learnthe way' to Paint and Draw Pi???tures, before they were infiru???'ced in any other? Thing; Slaves and vulgar hands, by a perpetual Edi&, were excludedi-from the benefit and pra???tice of it: And Iafily; it wasena???ted, That the Art it fel'flhouldbe ranged in the firi i degreeof beml Sciences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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