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How to mix paint and to prepare different colours

HELMREICH, Andreas.
Kunstbüchlein. Wie man auff Marmelstein, Kupffer, Messing, Zihn, Stahl, Eisen, Harnisch und Waffen, ic. etzen, und künstlich vergülden soll. Mit vorgehendem Bericht, wie man Dinten, Dintenpulver, Prisilgen, und alle Metallfarben zum schreiben. Mancherley Farben, Pergament, Federn zu färben. Alle Metallen aus der Federn zu schreiben, Gold und Silber, Fundamentlein und Goldwasser auff allerley Ballerey, und dergleichen mehr, machen und temperieren soll. Zu Dienst und Ehren allen Schreibern, auch den unerfahrnen der Etzkunst, zusammen gebracht. Von neuen übersehen, gemehret, und corrigirt, und in Druck gebracht.

Title-page printed in red & black.



(N.pl., n.p.), 1660. Small 8vo. Without binding. Title-page printed in red & black. (48) leaves.

Interesting and rare manual on art, by Andreas Helmreich ( 1546-1588). Several methods of engraving are explained, and special emphasis is given to mixing paint and preparing different colours.

Good copy.- (Title and last page sl. stained, small dog's ears in first and last pages, lower right corner of title and upper right corner of first text leaf torn off without loss of text).
Ferchl p. 224; not in Duveen nor in Ferguson.

Related Subjects: Art General  Engravings  German  History of Printing  Painting & Drawing 

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