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Subject Terms Varnish and varnishing.

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1. Smith's Art of house-painting : improved by Wm. Butcher : and including every particular relating to that useful art, with the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working, oil-colours, oil-cloth varnish and colour, milk-paint, &c. : the whole adapted to the meanest capacity, so as to enable any person to paint and grain, in oil-colours, all sorts of timber, or iron-work, in houses or ships : as gates, doors, posts, pales, palisadoes, and every thing that requires paint, whether for beauty or for preservation, from the influence of the weather; with the manner of painting window-transparencies, and other useful recipes.

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Creator:
Smith, John, 1647 or 1648–1727?
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
iv, 36 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Elegance, amusement, and utility; or, The whole process of varnishing on paper and wood, with every improvement. By J. Crease ...

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Creator:
Crease, James
Date:
[1801?]
Physical Description:
38 p. 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The painter and varnisher's guide; or, A treatise, both in theory and practice, on the art of making and applying varnishes, on the different kinds of painting; and on the method of preparing colours both simple and compound ... By P.F. Tingry ...

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Creator:
Tingry, P. F. (Pierre François), 1743–1821
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
xlii p., 1 leaf, 540 p. 5 plates (3 fold.) fold. tab. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Notes and formulas for the preparation of paints, varnishes, oils, etc. : manuscript.

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Date:
circa 1817
Physical Description:
1 volume (50 pages) ; 21 x 17 cm + 5 sheets.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts