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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Smith, John, 1647 or 1648â1727?
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1825
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Smith's Art of house-painting : improved by Wm. Butcher : and including every particular relating to that useful art, with the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working, oil-colours, oil-cloth varnish and colour, milk-paint, &c. : the whole adapted to the meanest capacity, so as to enable any person to paint and grain, in oil-colours, all sorts of timber, or iron-work, in houses or ships : as gates, doors, posts, pales, palisadoes, and every thing that requires paint, whether for beauty or for preservation, from the influence of the weather; with the manner of painting window-transparencies, and other useful recipes.
Creator:
Smith, John, 1647 or 1648â1727?
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
iv, 36 pages ; 18 cm
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Rare Books and Manuscripts