Dictionarium polygraphicum
Subtitle: or, The whole body of arts regularly digested : containing: I. The arts of designing, drawing, painting, washing prints, limning, japanning, gilding in all their various kinds ...  II. Carving, cutting in wood, stone; moulding and casting figures in plaister, wax, metal; also engraving, and etching, and mezzotinto.  III. A brief historical account of the most considerable painters, sculptors, statuaries, and engravers, with those cyphers or marks by which their works are known.  IV. An explanation of the emblematical and hieroglyphical representations of the heathen deities ... V. The production, nature, refining, compounding, transmutation and tinging all sorts of metals and minerals ...  VI. The art of making, working, painting or staining all sorts of glass and marble ...  VII. Dying all sorts of materials ... ; also bleaching and whitening ...  VIII. The art of tapestry-weaving ...  IX. A description of colours, natural and artificial, as to their productions, natures or qualities ...  X. The method of making all kinds of inks ... : adorned with proper sculptures, curiously engraven on more than fifty copper plates. --
Publisher: Printed for C. Hitch and C. Davis ..., and S. Austen ...
Published: 1735
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Art -- Dictionaries; Industrial arts -- Dictionaries
Other titles: The whole body of arts regularly digested; The polygraphick dictionary
Notes: Anonymous.  By John Barrow.  Cf. Halkett & Laing.

Vol. 1: added engr. t.p.

Caption title: The polygraphick dictionary.

With [2] p. of advertisements at end of v. 2.