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. /
by John Stalker.

Description

Main Author

Stalker, John.

Related Names

Parker, George, active 17th century.

Language(s)

English

Published

Oxford : Printed for, and sold by the author, 1688.

Subjects

Lacquer and lacquering.
Varnish and varnishing.
Japanning.

Note

British Museum catalogue gives as authors John Stalker and George Parker.
Errata included, p. [15]

Physical Description

[16], 84 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.

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