Arts treasury: containing many profitable extraordinary rareties, and curious inventions. In two parts. Part I. Containing the mystery of dying cloths, silks, stuffs, hair, feathers, bone, horn, ivory, leather, &c. The manner of preparing colours, directions to take out spots, stains, pitch, tar, wax, rosin. &c. out of silks, stuffs, woollen, linen, &c. To recover faded colours and preserve apparel, &c. To scowr silver and gold lace, plate, &c. Preparing cement for glass, china, &c. ... The art of thickening linnen, washing or colouring maps, or printed pictures, with sundry other things, &c. Part II. Containing the quality, generation and product of metals and minerals, natural and artificial; directions to harden or soften them for use. The art of souldering, burnishing, and gilding metals. Instructions for making inks of all kinds and colours, preparing gold or silver for writing, and all manner of sealing-wax, wafers, &c. Gold and silver to know the fineness, and to detect counterf

People / Organizations

• John White (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for George Conyers at the Ring in Little-Brittain. Price bound one shilling, [1690?]

Publication year

1690-1690

ESTC No.

R39065

Grub Street ID

121080

Description

[4], 140 p. ; 12⁰

Note

Preface signed: John White

Publication date conjectured by Wing.