Valuable Secrets concerning Arts and Trades: or, Approved Directions, from the best Artists, for the various methods of engraving on brass, copper, or steel. Of the composition of metals, and varnishes. Of mastichs and cements, sealing-wax, &c. Of colours and painting, for carriage painters. Of painting on paper. Of compositions from limners. Of transparent colours. How to dye skins or gloves. To colour or varnish copper-plate prints. Of painting on glass. Of colours of all sorts, for oil, water, and crayons. Of the art of gilding. The art of dying woods, bones, &c. The art of moulding. The art of making wines. Of the various compostions of vinegars. Of liquors and essential oils. Of the confectionary art. Of taking out all sorts of spots and stains

Norwich, [Conn.]: Printed by Thomas Hubbard, 1795. Early and possibly first American edition (also issued in the same year with a Philadelphia imprint). [2], xxii, 240 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, usual wear, morocco spine label chipped. Early and possibly first American edition (also issued in the same year with a Philadelphia imprint). [2], xxii, 240 pp. 12mo. Selections from Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers, The English translation first published in London 1775. An early work to be published in America on the subject, particularly the section regarding copper and steel engraving. Also issued in Philadelphia the same year under the title One Thousand Valuable Secrets. Evans 29243; Trumbull, J. H. Connecticut,1543; Rink, E. Technical Americana, 155; Lowenstein, E. American cookery (3rd ed.),10; Sabin, 98399; ESTC W2441; JCB Library, The colonial scene, p. 63