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Section
1. [Cover]
2. [Title Page]
3. Preface to the sixth edition
4. Contents to the first volume
5. Part I. Artificial fire-works
6. Explanation of plate IV.
7. Part II. A variety of curious and valuable experiments on gold and silver; shewing the method of testing, refining, separating, allaying, and toughening those metals; together with other receipts, for gilding &c
8. Part III. The art of enamelling in ordinary, and the method of preparing the colours. The art of painting in enamel.--Curious instructions how to make artificial pearls.--Of doublets and foils, and the manner of colouring them.--The art of counterfeiting precious stones, with other rare secrets
9. [Part III.] Of enamelling in ordinary; and of preparing the enamel-colours
10. [Part III.] Of artificial pearls
11. [Part III.] Of doublets
12. [Part III.] Instructions concerning foils, or metallic leaves, which are laid under precious stones
13. [Part III.] The art of imitating precious stones, or of making artificial gems
14. Part IV. The art of making glass; with the art of painting, and making impressions upon glass, and of laying thereon gold or silver; together with the method of preparing the colours for potters-work, or Delft-ware
15. [Part IV.] Of glass
16. [Part IV.] The art of painting upon glass
17. [Part IV.] The art of glazing and painting on fine earthenware, commonly called Delft ware
18. [Part IV.] Colours for potter's glaze-work
19. Part V. Several receipts for casting in silver, copper, brass, tin, steel, and other metals; likewise in wax, plaster of paris, wood, horn, &c - with the management of the respective moulds
20. [Part V.] To prepare clay for making all sorts of moulds to cast gold, silver, and other metals in
21. [Part V.] How to cast images of plaster of paris: to cast wax, either solid or hollow: also to form images in wax, and cast them afterwards in any metal, either solid or hollow
22. [Part V.] Mixtures for casting mirrors, and for casting other things
23. Part VI. A collection of very valuable secrets for the use of smiths, cutlers, pewterers, braziers, book-binders, joiners, turners, japanners, &c
24. [Part VI.] Choice experiments on iron and steel
25. [Part VI.] To etch upon sword or knife-blades
26. [Part VI.] Of lead and pewter
27. [Part VI.] Some experiments relating to copper and brass
28. [Part VI.] Choice secrets for book-binders
29. [Part VI.] Choice secrets for cabinet makers, and turners
30. [Part VI.] Varieties of glues and cements, for joining wood, stone, glass and metals
31. [Part VI.] Several curious secrets relating to ivory, bone, and horn
32. [Part VI.] Of varnishing, or japanning on wood, &c
33. [Part VI.] Of coral work
34. Part VII. The art of preparing colours for painters; with several methods of gilding, &c
35. Part VIII. Several choice curiosities
36. Part IX. Several secrets relating to marble
37. Part X. Plain instructions for painting in water-colours; and an introduction to the art of drawing in perspective
38. [Part X.] A short introduction to the art of drawing in perspective
39. Part XI. Of cosmetics, odoriferous-waters, oils, &c
40. Part XII. Of dying silk, worsted, cotton, &c. of various colours
41. Part XIII. Stenography; or the art of short-hand writing
42. Part XIV. Miscellaneous
43. [Part XIV.] Of snuff-making
44. [Part XIV.] Secrets entertaining and useful
45. [Part XIV.] Secrets relative to wine
46. Plate 1: Fire-works
47. Plate 2: Fire-works
48. Plate 3: Fire-works
49. Plate 4: see the explanation, page 60
50. Plate V: Glass-blowing
51. Plate 6
52. Plate VII
53. Plate VIII
54. Plate IX
55. Plate X
56. Plate XI
57. Plate XII
58. Plate XIII
59. Plate XIV
60. Plate XV: Accompt kept by Jonathan Dilkes the Steward
61. Plate XVI: Substitute characters
62. [Plate] XVII: Table of the manner of joining the characters
63. Plate XVIII: Abbreviations
64. Plate XIX: A lesson for practice
65. [Cover]
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Volume
1. The laboratory, or, School of arts : containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book-binders, plasterers, artists, and to the workers in metals in general : and in plaster of paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials Sixth edition, with a great number of additional receipts, corrections, and amendments; a complete treatise on fire-works, and the art of short-hand writing, Vol. I 1799
2. The laboratory, or, School of arts : containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book-binders, plasterers, artists, and to the workers in metals in general : and in plaster of paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials Sixth edition, with a great number of additional receipts, corrections, and amendments; a complete treatise on fire-works, and the art of short-hand writing, Vol. II 1799
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