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A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing, Being a Compleat Discovery of Those Arts
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Excerpt from A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing, Being a Compleat Discovery of Those Arts: With the Best Way of Making All Sorts of Varnish for Japan, Wood, Prints, or PicturesIF the Antiquity of an Art Can advanée its credit and reputation, this of the Pencil may ju¿ly claim it, for although we cannot trace it from its Original, yet-wefind'smany valuable. Pieces extant in time of Alexander the Great. The Grecian's (who always entou raged Learning and Ingenuity had [o'cgreat an honour for: 2this Art that they ordained, That Gentlemens Sons and Freeborn' Ihould be firl't fent to a painting-school, to learnthe way' to Paint and Draw Piétures, before they were infirué'ced in any other? Thing, Slaves and vulgar hands, by a perpetual Edi&, were excludedi-from the benefit and praétice of it: And Iafily, it wasenaéted, That the Art it fel'flhouldbe ranged in the firi¿i degreeof¿beml Sciences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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