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Art's master-piece, or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex

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Art's master-piece, or, A companion for the ingenious of either sex
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Description	By C. K.. Contents: I. The art of limning and painting in oil -- II. The newest experiment in japanning -- III. To make artificial tortoiseshell -- IV. The mystery of dying silks, stuffs, woollen and linnen cloth -- V. To take spots, stains, pitch, tare and iron moulds out of silks, stuffs, linnen, and woollen -- VI. The art of perfuming and beautifying -- VII. Divers physical and chirurgical receipts -- VIII. To make London powder ink, other powder inks.
Shelfmark	ABS.1.76.383
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1717 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland > Glasgow > Glasgow (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Painting (image-making) Printing (process) Decoration (process) Applied decoration Techniques (processes)
Person / organisation:	White, John, -1671 [Attributed name] C. K. [Author]
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