The art of painting in oil. Wherein is included each particular circumstance relating to that art and mystery; with the best and most approved rules for the preparing, mixing, and working of oil-colours. The whole Treatise being so complete, and so exactly fitted to the meanest Capacity, that all Persons may be able, by these Directions, to paint in Oil Colours, all Manner of Timber-Work; such as Posts, Pales, Palisadoes, Gates, Doors, or any Thing else that requires either Use, Beauty, or Preservation from the Violence or Injury of the Weather. In which are also particularly laid down all the several Circumstances required in Painting of Sun-Dials, Printed Pictures, Sash-Windows, &c. in Oil Colours. The ninth edition, revised and corrected. To which is added, The whole Art and Mystery of Colouring Maps, and other Prints, with Water Colours. By John Smith, C. M.

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MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]