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SMITH ( John ). The art of painting in oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relatin

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SMITH ( John ). The art of painting in oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relatin

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
SMITH ( John ). The art of painting in oyl. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery. Containing the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl-colours. The whole treatise being so full compleat, and so exactly fitted to the meanest capacity, that all persons whatsoever, may be able by these directions, to paint in oyl-colours all manner of timber-work; such as posts, palls, palisadoes, gates, doors, or any thing else that requires either use, beauty, or preservation, from the violence or injury of the weather. In which is also particularly laid down, all the several circumstances required in painting of sun-dials, printed pictures, shash-windows, &c. in oily-colours. The second impression with some alterations, and many useful additions. London : Printed for Samuel Crouch at the corner of Pope’s-Head-Alley in Cornhill, 1687SECOND EDITION, REVISED, pages (12), 100, 12mo, contemporary unlettered calf, a little dusty and a little worn at corners but the binding very strong, otherwise a very good, unsophisticated copy inscrbed at end "Daniell [?]Flovisher / his Book Anno Dom / 1691 cost 12", and, in another comtemporary hand, "Nic. Wallis" on title-page, repeated on page 77. Wing S 4100. ESTC has nine copies : L(2), O, Oc / CStmoGRI, CLU-C, IU, CtY-BA and CtY. A practical decorating manual by an author who also wrote several horological treatises, on gauging, on the barometer, and on writing. Chapters on the preparation of colours, the making and applying of gold leaf, “A discovery of the Mystery of Back Painting Maps, or Prints in Oyl-Colours ; so much now in use”. “The manner of Painting Cloath, or Sarsnet Shash-Windows”etc., are included. John Evelyn owned a copy of this revised second edition in which he carefully noted some of the differences between the two editions, concluding, it should be said, that this second edition was in some respects inferior to the first.ENGLISH PRE 1701; WING; ART; APPLIED ART; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;