The school of arts, or, Fountain of knowledge: containing several hundred truly valuable and useful receipts selected from the works and communications of the most eminent British artists : particularly adpated for the use, emolument, and pleasure of the public in general and the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and science

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Containing several hundred truly valuable and useful receipts, selected from the works and communications of the most eminent British artists. Lacks the final leaf of text and the frontispiece. A good copy in original printed stiff paper boards, some light foxing. A compilation of recipes for solutions grouped under the headings of “Miscellaneous” (including, amongst many others, “To soften ivory”, “To make skyrockets” and “A black varnish for gentlemen’s old straw or chip hats”); “Dyeing”; “Useful Receipts” (e.g. “To bronze plaster figures”, “To make the phosphoric match bottle” and “Thunder powder”) (Ken Spelman 76/40)