The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning. Painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures. Also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours. Collected from the writings of the ablest masters, both antient and modern, as Albert Durer, P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furnished with divers cuts in copper, being copied from the best masters, and here inserted for examples for the learner to practice by .. (1668)

Ratcliffe, Thomas, fl. 1628-1667, Daniel, Thomas, fl. 1669-1670, Newman, Dorman, Jones, Richard, bookseller · London, Printed by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones ... · leaf 35

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