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IBBETSON (Culius Caesar). An Accidence, or Gamut, of Painting in Oil. With a brief memoir of the author's life; and his portrait, engraved by R. Cooper, from a painting by J. R. Smith. Also his method of preparing gumtion, for rendering every colour transparent; with other recipes, never before published.1828
London: Published by Harvey and Darton, Second edition, 4to (310 x 240 mm), xii, [ix]-xiii, [1], 18pp., title vignette, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 etched plates to rear, plates browned with some staining, original wrappers, cloth spine, lower outer corner of rear wrapper torn away. Describes the materials and grounds, the oils varnishes etc., and the colours required in making paint. This is the trade edition without the mounted oval coloured specimens which accompanied the pigment receipts in some copies.
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