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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 65

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pose thesteel.— Translated from the Freneli of M. Phi-lippe Plantamour, in the Comptes Rendees,5 Mai, No. 18, 1847. To Polish Furniture.—Melt together in apipkin, half a pound of becs-wax, and aquarter of an ounce of alkanet root, until theformer be well coloured; then add linseed oiland spirits of… … OSTLY, as connectedwith the symbolical wor-ship of the sun, under oneof his chief attributes ortitles, namely, that ofBacchus, the ivy-leaf nextclaims our attention, as offrequent occurrence in theornamental system of theancients. Here, as in allthe rest of their artisticalembellishments, we…

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