The art of painting in oyl
Subtitle: wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working of oyl colours : the whole treatise being so full ... that all persons whatsoever, may be able by these directions, to paint in oyl-colours all manner of timberwork ... : in which is also laid down, all the several circumstances required in painting of sun-dials, printed pictures, shash-windows, etc. in oily-colours
By: by John Smith ...
Contributors: Smith, John, 1647 or 8-1727?; Crouch, Samuel
Edition: The 4th impression with some alterations, and many matters added, which are not to be found in the three former editions, to which is now added, the whole art and mystery of colouring maps, and other prints, with water colours.
Publisher: Printed for Samuel Crouch ...
Published: 1705
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Paint; Early works to 1800; Architecture; Industrial Painting; Technique; Painting; Details
Notes: Signatures: A⁴ B-H⁸.

Publisher's advertisements: [4] p. at end.

First published in 1676 under title: The art of painting.

Library's copy 1 bound in blue calfskin; all edges gilt; gilt rules on boards; gilt title on spine; armorial bookplate of Paul Jodrell of Duffield on title-page verso.

Library's copy 2 bound in calf; edges sprinkled red; gilt title on spine; bookplate of G.W.F. Gregor and label of Ulrich Middeldorf on front pastedown.