An unabridged, digitally enlarged printing of this nineteenth century classic, to include the arts of polishing, waxing, lacquering, and japanning, etc., with recipes for colors, varnishes, waxes, polishes, oils, and subsequent materials. Some illustrations, and a full chapter on glass staining, with tips on taking ink spots out of mahogany, making furniture paste, browning gun barrels, the cleaning of pictures, silver, sienna, jasper, etc., and how to imitate woods and marbles. Eighth Edition