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to need education, which includes nurture, discipline, and moral training
with a view to the formation of character and instruction. Education of
small children needs to contain a large element of discipline, whereas older
children should be encouraged to think for themselves.
[Provenance:] From the library of the Swedish philosopher of the Uppsala
school Samuel Grubbe (1786–1853). Grubbe, who was very much in
the tradition of Kantian philosophy, is of particular importance as a teacher
of nineteenth century Swedish philosophers.
Borst 946; Warda 219.
Recipes for Lacquer and Varnish
66 [LACQUER.] Neu entdeckte Lacquir-Kunst: oder
Gründliche Anweisung, wie man nicht nur unterschiedliche
bissher geheim gehaltene kostbare Lacquen, insonderheit den
so genannten Eisen- und raren weissen Lacq ohne grosse Mühe
und Unkosten verfertigen, sondern auch den biss izo unbekanten
Gummi Copal leichtlich und bald auXösen könne, nebst einen
Anhange unterschiedlicher curieuser und nützlicher Kunst-Stücke,
herausgegeben von einem curiosorum Experimentorum Amatore.
Dresden and Leipzig, Johann Nicolaus Gerlach, 1742. £750
8vo, pp. 112, title page in red and black, decorative initial and woodcut
head-piece; contemporary boards, extremities rubbed, joints splitting,
and head of spine chipped; front pastedown with manuscript notes.
Later edition of an often-produced guide to workshop recipes for the production
and application of lacquers and varnishes, Wrst published in 1708.
Amongst others, recipes for lacquering engravings and paintings, wooden
furniture, and other surfaces are given, with details both of their composition
and application. Colour recipes, both simple and marbled, gilt,
perfumed, and with varying Wnishes are described with detailed recipes,
including those using ‘gummi copal’, a kind of fossilised tree resin, together
with recipes for Chinese lacquer and Venetian lacquer, surfaces for mirrors,
various types of glue, and methods for transferring engravings onto glass.
This is interspersed with general recipes for secrets, such permanent and
vanishing ink, and medical ones, such as snuV, remedies for nose-bleeds,
fever and other ailments.
At the time, this kind of information would have been regarded as a
trade secret and the anonymous author refers to it in his introduction. He
blames the masters of the trade for keeping this vital information secret,
and charging huge sums in apprenticeship premiums, even though the basic
principles could be learnt within a week – as he sets out to prove in this
manual. Despite frequent reprints, presumably with slightly varying recipes,
not many copies of this workshop manual have survived.
OCLC records copies at the Getty, Oberlin College, Cincinnati, Othmer Library
(Philadelphia), and Harvard.
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