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Polygraphice; or The art of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, colouring, and dying. : In three books. I. Shews the drawing of men, and other animal creatures, landskips, countries, and figures of various forms. II. The way of engraving, etching and limning, with all their requisits and ornaments. III. The way of painting, washing, varnishing, colouring, and dying, according to the method of the best authors now extant. Exemplified in the painting of the antients, washing of maps, globes, or pictures; dying of cloth, silks, bones, wood, glass, stones, and metals: together with the way of varnishing thereof according to any purpose or intent. The like never yet extant