Advertising: p. [1] at end; final leaf blank

Added engraved title-page by Philip Holmes

(from title-page) 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

Bound in old sprinkled calf; edges sprinkled red; title in ink on foot of text-block; extensive notes in a contemporary hand on initial three blank pages; engraved armorial bookplate on recto of added engraved title-page

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