Title: The Laboratory; Or, School of Arts
Author: Smith, G[odfrey]
Description: 2 volumes. [xvi], 440; [iv], 464, [11], +[3] ad pp. 31 engraved plates, several folding. (8vo) 8¼x5¼, modern ½ red morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt. Seventh Edition.Title continues: "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 worker in metals in general; an in plaster of Paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials." Also includes a long chapter on the manufacture of artificial fire-works.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, et al
Date Published: 1810
Author: Smith, G[odfrey]
Description: 2 volumes. [xvi], 440; [iv], 464, [11], +[3] ad pp. 31 engraved plates, several folding. (8vo) 8¼x5¼, modern ½ red morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt. Seventh Edition.Title continues: "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 worker in metals in general; an in plaster of Paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials." Also includes a long chapter on the manufacture of artificial fire-works.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, et al
Date Published: 1810
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Some light wear to binding; else very good.
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Silver Reference, Decorative & Graphic Arts
1:00 PM PT - Jul 10th, 2008
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PBA Galleries
133 Kearny Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
San Francisco, CA 94108
