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Author additional ss Rider, John, printer.

Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

1. Smith's Art of house-painting : improved by Wm. Butcher : and including every particular relating to that useful art, with the best and most approved rules for preparing, mixing, and working, oil-colours, oil-cloth varnish and colour, milk-paint, &c. : the whole adapted to the meanest capacity, so as to enable any person to paint and grain, in oil-colours, all sorts of timber, or iron-work, in houses or ships : as gates, doors, posts, pales, palisadoes, and every thing that requires paint, whether for beauty or for preservation, from the influence of the weather; with the manner of painting window-transparencies, and other useful recipes.

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Creator:: Smith, John, 1647 or 1648–1727?
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: iv, 36 pages ; 18 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The practical gardener, and modern horticulturist : containing the latest and most approved methods for the management of the kitchen, fruit, and flower-garden, the green-house, hot-house, &c., &c., for every month in the year : each department being distinctly and separately arranged : illustrated by numerous designs of the most eligible plans for the formation of kitchen and pleasure-gardens, the erection of hot-houses, hot-beds, green-houses, conservatories, walls, fences, &c., &c. including the new method of heating forcing-houses with hot water only : forming a complete system of modern practice, in the various branches of horticultural science : embellished with highly-finished engravings of some of the most choice and valuable fruits and flowers now cultivated in this country / by Charles McIntosh, C.M.C.H.S. ...

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Creator:: McIntosh, Charles, 1794–1864
Date:: 1828
Physical Description:: 2 volumes (viii, 1122 pages, [28] leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts