Polygraphice; or The art of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, colouring, and dying. In three books. I. Shews the drawing of men, and other animal creatures, landskips, countries, and figures of various forms. II. The way of engraving, etching and limning, with all their requisits and ornaments. III. The way of painting, washing, varnishing, colouring, and dying, according to the method of the best authors now extant. Exemplified in the painting of the antients, washing of maps, globes, or pictures; dying of cloth, silks, bones, wood, glass, stones, and metals: together with the way of varnishing thereof according to any purpose or intent. The like never yet extant. By W.S. a lover of art.

People / Organizations

• Richard Jones ("printed for")
• William Salmon (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by E[van]. T[yler]. and R[alph]. H[olt]. for Richard Jones at the Golden Lion in Little-Britain, 1672.

Publication year

1672-1672

ESTC No.

R16619

Grub Street ID

64440

Description

[12], 293, [1] p. : ill. ; 8⁰

Note

Dedication signed: W. Salmon.

Printer's name from Wing CD.

With additional engraved title page (pi1v).Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S444