New practical improvements, and observations on some of the experiments and considerations touching colours : of the honourable and judicious Robert Boyle, esq., so far as they relate to tinctures and pigments : intended for the use of gentlemen and ladies that amuse themselves with painting in water colours, as well as designers and limners, &c. / by John Hoofnail.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoofnail, John.

Contributor:

Gosling, Robert, -1741, publisher.

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.

Boyle Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color--Early works to 1800.

Color.

Colors--Early works to 1800.

Colors.

Pigments--Early works to 1800.

Pigments.

Watercolor painting--Great Britain--18th century.

Watercolor painting.

Great Britain.

Painting--Study and teaching.

Painting.

Genre:

Printed waste (Binding)

Physical Description:

vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 64 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

ser, t.be r,ou "l"s (3) 1738 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for R. Gosling ..., 1738.

Notes:

Signatures: A-I⁴.

Intended as a supplement to Robert Boyle's Experiments and considerations touching colors.

Head- and tail-pieces; factotum initials.

At foot of t.p.: (Price one shilling).

Local Notes:

Boyle Collection copy is from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, with a pictorial bookplate on front pastedown that reads "The Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection University of Pennsylvania."

Boyle Collection copy quarter bound in brown leather over paper boards; brief title typewritten on a paper label pasted on left board; endpapers are a printed leaf in German used as binding waste; front endpaper detached from spine.

Cited in:

BM (compact edition), v.12, 447

ESTC, T39912

Fulton, John F. Bibliography of the honourable Robert Boyle, 285

Related Work:

Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Experiments and considerations touching colors.

OCLC:

54135234