A very proper treatise wherein is breefely set forth the art of limming
Subtitle: which teacheth the order in drawing and tracing of letters, vinets, flowers, armes, and imagery : and the maner how to make sondrye syses or groundes to lay siluer or gold vpon, and how siluer or gold shall be layed or limmed vpon the sise, and the waye to temper gold and siluer and other mettals and diuerse kindes of colours to write or to limme withall vpon velym, parchment or paper ... .
Publisher: By Thomas Purfoot
Published: 1596
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Illumination of books and manuscripts; Artists' materials; Technique; Painting; Formulae
Other titles: Art of limming.
Work titles: Arte of limming
Notes: Caption title, running title: The art of limming.

An anonymous work first published by Richard Tottill, London, 1573 with the title: A very proper treatise wherein is briefly sett forth the arte of limming ..., with a running title: The arte of limming.  It "collates closely with the middle portion of Hilliard's Treatise dealing with color ... although Hilliard adds more detail and is generally more sophisticated in his treatment."-- A.F. Kinney in Nicholas Hilliard's Art of limming, Boston, 1983, p. 6.

Signatures: A-C⁴.

STC (2nd ed.) 24256

A leaf of woodcut ornaments separates the final p. from filler sheets bound in.

Library's copy from the library of Theodore Besterman.