A profitable booke, declaring diuers approoued remedies, to take out spots and staines in silkes, veluets, linnen and woollen clothes
Subtitle: vvith diuers colours, how to die veluets and silkes, linnen and woollen, fustian and thread : also to dresse leather, and to colour felles : how to guild, graue, sowder, and vernish : and to harden and make soft yron and steele : verie necessarie for all men, specially for those which haue or shall haue any doing therein : with a perfect table hereunto, to finde all thinges readie, not the like reuealed in English heretofore
By: taken out of Dutch, and Englished by L.M.
Contributors: Mascall, Leonard, d. 1589.; Purfoot, Thomas, d. 1615, printer.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Thomas Purfoot, dwelling within the new rents, in S. Nicholas Shambles
Published: 1605
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Painting -- Early works to 1800.; Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Early works to 1800.; Spotting (Cleaning) -- Early works to 1800.; Dyes and dyeing -- Early works to 1800.; Metal-work -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Proper treatise, wherein is briefly set forth the art of limming; Profitable booke, declaring divers approoved remedies, to take out spots and staines in silkes, velvets, linnen and woollen clothes; Very proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arte of limming.
Notes: Original Dutch title not traced.
L.M. identified by STC (2nd ed.) as Leonard Mascall.
Error in pagination: 78 as 88.
Second pt. of book originally published under title: A very proper treatise, wherein is briefly sett forthe the arte of limming ...
Signatures: [?] L4[?] M-O⁴.
Includes index.
LC copy imperfect, 1st part of book wanting. LC copy has only A proper treatise, wherein is briefly set forth the art of limming ..., beginning with the 3rd group of paging. Description of 1st part of book taken from Huntington Library RLIN record CSHRB15018155-B.
STC (2nd ed.) 17593=24257
ESTC (RLIN) S112383
NUC pre-1956 NP0604605