The art of painting in oyl

An overview of the styles and history of oil painting in the 17th century to the mid 1700s.

While the title would suggest this is merely a work from an artistic view, it covers a variety of topics including how to work with gold and silver gilding, among others.

The book's interior cover page states:
> "wherein is included each particular
> circumstance relating to that art and
> mystery : containing the best and most
> approved rules for preparing, mixing,
> and working of oyl-colours : the whole
> treatise being so full compleat, and
> so exactly fitted to the meanest
> capacity, that all persons
> whatsoever, may be able by these
> directions, to paint in oyl-colours
> all manner of timber-work, such as
> posts, pails, palisadoes, gates,
> doors, or any thing else that requires
> either use, beauty, or preservation
> from the violence or injury of the
> weather : in which is also
> particularly laid down, all the
> several circumstances required in
> painting of sundials, printed
> pictures, shash-windows, &c. in
> oily-colours"