Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ... To which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.

Salmon, William, 1644-1713, Polygraphice, 1678

Creator:: Salmon, William, 1644-1713
Title(s):: Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In four books ... To which is added a discourse of perspective and chiromancy.
Edition:: The 4th ed., with many large additions: adorned with sculptures: the like never yet extant. By William Salmon ...
Published/Created:: London, Printed by Robert White, for John Crumpe, and sold by Charles Passinger, 1678.
Physical Description:: 5 p.., 407, [15] p. front. (port.) plates. 20 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7420 S2 1678
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/197228
Classification:: Books
Notes:: BAC : Imperfect: frontispiece wanting.
BAC : Advertisement: [1] p. at end.
BAC : Added t.-p. and plates by W. Sherwin and Guil. Vaughan.
Added t.-p., engraved, with imprint 1675.
Subject Terms:: Art -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Palmistry.
Portrait painting.
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