Text set / [Notebook of ink recipes and medical remedies].

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Sig. B1 verso, facing plate [Plate 1, folded recto]

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Sig. B1 verso, facing plate [Plate 1, unfolded verso]

Sig. B1 verso, facing plate [Plate 1, folded verso]

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Title: [Notebook of ink recipes and medical remedies].
Alternative Title: The excellency of the pen and pencil. London, Printed by Thomas Ratcliff and Thomas Daniel, for Dorman Newman and Richard Jones, and are to be sold at their shops in Little Britain, near the Lame Hospital gate, at the Chyrurgeons Arms, and at the Golden Lyon, 1668.
Contributor: Steele, Samuel, former owner.
Crow, Graf, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1668-1683]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Printed copy of the 1668 drawing manual, The excellency of pen and pencil, interleaved with manuscript notes in several hands. There are also 104 leaves at the end of the printed text, about half of which contain manuscript entries. Most of the manuscript material refers back to the printed work, and consist of additional recipes for ink and other related recommendations. A few printed pages even have manuscript additions and insertions in the same hand, which appears to be roughly contemporary to the published book (one manuscript entry is dated 1683). Other hands, both contemporary and later, have contributed other art-related recipes as well as recipes for medical remedies. There are also some sketches and pen trials.
Condition: Bound in contemporary vellum with fore-edge flap, double ruled in blind. Flap secured with metal clasps (one is lacking); additional brass strip, folded and adhered to bottom edge of front board, for carrying on a belt.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Recipes--England--17th century.
Medical formularies--England--17th century.
Extent: [16], 121 pages, [1], 93 pages, [117] p., bound ; 16 cm (8vo)
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1kk64
NC705 .E96 *
Language: eng
Subject: Drawing--Study and teaching.
Drawing--Early works to 1800.
Art--Technique.
Place: England--London.
Provenance: Inside of flap inscribed: "Samuel Steele, his hand and pen, deus omnipotent"; title page inscribed "Graf Crow."
Location: CLUW

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