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Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades : or, approved directions, from the best artists, for the various methods of ... ; containing upwards of one thousand approved receipts relative to arts and trades.

Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades : or, approved directions, from the best artists, for the various methods of ... ; containing upwards of one thousand approved receipts relative to arts and trades.

 
 
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Secrets concerning arts and trades
Publisher: 
London : Printed and sold by Will. Hay, 1775.
Subjects: 
Workshop recipes Early works to 1800.
Industrial arts Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Glass manufacture Early works to 1800.
Precious stones, Artificial Early works to 1800.
Decorative arts Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Record Number
Bib ID: 
97130
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Description
xxxiv, 312 p. ; 17 cm.
Notes
Book and scans of a calcedony recipe (p. 73) and recipes XXX-XXXI to soften crystal Displayed in the exhibition titled "The Science of Glassmaking : 8 Centuries of a Magical Art", held at the Rakow Research Library, June 27, 2008-January 4, 2009.
Contents: 
chap. 5. Secrets relative to the art of glass manufactory, and the making compositions to imitate precious stones, commonly known, in this country, by the name of French paste --
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chap. 6, [pt.] 7. For painting on glass --