A treatise of japaning and varnishing
Subtitle: being a compleat discovery of those arts. With the best way of making all sorts of varnish for japan, wood, prints, or pictures. The method of guilding, burnishing, and lackering, with the art of guilding, separating, and refining metals: and of painting mezzo-tinto-prints. Also rules for counterfeiting tortoise-shell, and marble, and for staining or dying wood, ivory, and horn. Together with above an hundred distinct patterns for japan-work, in imitation of the Indians, for tables, stands, frames, cabinets, boxes, &c. Curiously engraven on 24 large copper-plates. By George Parker, varnisher and japaner
Contributors: Parker, George, 17th cent
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 2520:14
Publisher: printed for, and sold by the author, at Mr. Richard Wood's house over against the Theater in Oxford
Published: 1688
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Japanning -- Early works to 1800; Varnish and varnishing -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800
Notes: Attributed to John Stalker and George Parker. cf. Wing

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) S5187B

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2520:14).