POLYGRAPHICE: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. : In two volumns [sic]. Containing, I. The arts of drawing men, women, landskips, &c. II. Of engraving, etching and limning. III. Of painting, washing, coloring, gilding. IV. Of the original, advancement and perfection of painting, with the various paintings of the ancients. V. Of the arts of beautifying and perfuming. VI. Of the arts of dying and staining. VII. Of alchymie, and the grand elixir of philosophers. VIII. Of the 112 chemical arcana of Peter Faber. IX. Of chiromantical signatures. X. Of staining and painting glass, enamel and gems. XI. Of vernishing, japaning and gilding. The eighth edition. Enlarged, with above five hundred considerable additions thro' the whole work; and the addition of almost five whole books, not in any of the former impressions: adorned with XXV copper sculptures, the like never yet extant.

Author: Salmon, William.
Title: POLYGRAPHICE: or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. : In two volumns [sic]. Containing, I. The arts of drawing men, women, landskips, &c. II. Of engraving, etching and limning. III. Of painting, washing, coloring, gilding. IV. Of the original, advancement and perfection of painting, with the various paintings of the ancients. V. Of the arts of beautifying and perfuming. VI. Of the arts of dying and staining. VII. Of alchymie, and the grand elixir of philosophers. VIII. Of the 112 chemical arcana of Peter Faber. IX. Of chiromantical signatures. X. Of staining and painting glass, enamel and gems. XI. Of vernishing, japaning and gilding. The eighth edition. Enlarged, with above five hundred considerable additions thro' the whole work; and the addition of almost five whole books, not in any of the former impressions: adorned with XXV copper sculptures, the like never yet extant.
Description: London, : printed for A. and J. Churchill, at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, and J. Nicholson, at the King's-Arms in Little-Britain, 1701. 8th Edition. 2 vols. in 1. Thick 8vo. 32,224,301-475,[i], [ii], 477-939,[1]p. Port. frontis., 23 plate, [without additional engraved title page]. Sm. hole to pp.599 affecting page no. and first line of text, browning, rebound in modern half calf with marbled boards, gilt lettered label to spine. ¶ ESTC T149640 ‘The text and register are continuous. With an additional titlepage, engraved, and an errata leaf [both lacking in our copy].’

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