Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c
Subtitle: in two volumes ...
By: by William Salmon, M.D.
Contributors: Fabre, Pierre-Jean, d. ca. 1650; A. and J. Churchill (Booksellers : London, England); Nicholson, John, d. ca. 1717
Edition: The eighth edition, enlarged, with above five hundred considerable additions thro' the whole work ...
Publisher: Printed for A. and J. Churchill ..., and J. Nicholson ...
Published: 1701
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 939
Other titles: Polygraphice; Arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c.
Notes: Pages 225-300 lacking in pagination.

Plate count includes the frontispiece portrait and an added engraved title-page.

Signatures: Ap8s ap8s B-Pp8s 2A-3Rp8s.

Statement of responsibility follows the edition statement on title-page.

ESTC(RLIN) T149640
Table of contents: title: (from title-page) 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 chymical arcana of Peter Faber. IX. Of chiromantical signatures. X. Of staining and painting glass, enamel and Gems. XI. Of vernishing, japaning, and gilding.