Varnish and varnishing - Early works to 1800
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Genuine receipt for making the famous vernis Martin or, as it is called by the English, Martin's copal varnish : With six other rich Varnishes, made and used here by the Painters at the Palais-Royale. Viz. 1. The famous copal oil varnish. 2. Amber Varnish. 3, Gold Lacker Varnish. 4. The Gold Varnish for Pictures. 5. A Varnish for Brass. 6. A Varnish for Gold. 7. A Varnish for Silver. 8. L'Avanturine, -- or rich Speckle. With the Method of laying them on, and Polishing them in the highest Taste at Paris.
Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- E-books
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Description of, and directions for using the different kinds of coal tar and varnish, prepared by the British Tar Company, at their works, in Shropshire, Staffordshire, and in Scotland
British Tar Company.Date: 1785?]- E-books
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Directions for using coal tar, half stuff, pitch, varnish, and varnish paints. By the Earl of Dundonald
Dundonald, Archibald Cochrane, Earl of, 1749?-1831.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- E-books
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Elegance, amusement, and utility Or the whole process of varnishing on paper and wood, with every improvement, By J. Crease, bath. The second edition. To which is added, gilding, working in black & gold, mounting drawings, cleaning pictures, &c. &c.
Crease, James.Date: [1797?]- E-books
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A treatise on the copal oil varnish or, what in France is call'd, Vernis Martin.
Date: [1775?]