Dictionarium polygraphicum: or, The whole body of arts regularly digested. Containing I. The arts of designing, drawing, painting, washing prints, limning, japanning, gilding in all their various kinds. Also perspective, the laws of shadows, dialling, &c. II. Carving, cutting in wood, stone; moulding and casting figures in plaister, wax, metal; also engraving, and etching, and mezzotinto. III. A brief historical account of the most considerable painters, sculptors, statuaries, and engravers, with those cyphers or marks by which their works are known. IV. An explanation of the emblematical and hieroglyphical representations of the heathen deities, powers, human passions, virtues, vices, &c. of great use in history painting. V. The production, nature, refining, compounding, transmutation and tinging all sorts of metals and minerals of various colours. VI. The arts of making, working, painting or staining all sorts of glass and marble; also enamels, the imitation of all sorts of precious stones, pearls, &c. according to the practice both of the antients and moderns. VII. Dying all sorts of materials, linen, woollen, silk, leather, wood, ivory, horns, bones; also bleaching and whitening linen, hair, &c. VIII. The art of tapestry-weaving, as now performed in England, Flanders and France, either of the high or low warp; also many other curious manufactures. IX. A description of colours, natural and artificial, as to their productions, natures or qualities, various preparations, compositions and uses. X. The method of making all kinds of inks, both natural and sympathetical; and also many other curiosities not here to be specified, whereby this is rendred a more compleat work than has hitherto appear'd in any language. Adorned with proper sculptures, curiously engraven on more than fifty copper plates. ...
John Barrow
Category
Books
Date
1735
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3052518
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill. (folded plates) ; 8vo. Running number: 4279. Provenance: manuscript inscription on vol. 1 front fly-leaf: "M. 2 vol. 54 plates" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; double gilt fillet border; blind roll pattern on board edges; gilt fillets, title label and vol. no. on spines. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
John Barrow