A New Collection of Genuine Receipts, for the Preparation and Execution of Curious Arts, and Interesting Experiments to Which Is Added: A Complete and ... in All Its Varieties (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from A New Collection of Genuine Receipts, for the Preparation and Execution of Curious Arts, and Interesting Experiments to Which Is Added: A Complete and Much Approved System of Dyeing, in All Its Varieties

First wet the morocco with the whites of eggs; when this is dry, rub the work over with a little olive oil, and lay on gold leaves. Then take some common printing types, and heat them to the tem perature of boiling water, and impress whatever letters you choose, on the gold. Rub the whole with a piece of flannel, and the superfluous gold will come off, leaving the letters entire.

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