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Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Memoranda on Painting – December 1755

Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois and the Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Whiting Society of Ringing

Commercial Fried Fish Cake Recipe

U.S. Coast Guard Radio Information for Boaters

Method of Restoration for Ancient Bronzes and other Alloys

Cleaner for Gilt Picture Frames

Period Furniture Identification

A General Process for Making Wine

AB Bookman’s 1948 Guide to Describing Conditions

Naval Stores – Distilling Turpentine

Proper Book Handling and Cleaning

A Couple of Classic Tennessee Squirrel Recipes

The Restoration of Rosa Bonheurs Horse Fair

On Exquisite Statuary for the Fine Country Home: “I Can Get’em at the British Museum”

Old Time Recipes for Homemade Wines, Cordials, and Liqueurs

Feeding the Hounds at Chateau Cheverny

Thomas Jefferson Correspondence – On Seed Saving and Sharing

Storing Drinking Water in Copper Vessels for Microbial Purification

The Basics of Painting in the Building Trade

A History of the Use of Arsenicals in Man

Cup of Tea? To be or not to be

The Warmth of a Country Christmas

Herbal Psychedelics – Rhododendron ponticum and Mad Honey Disease

A Note on Ill-Breeding from a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem

The Hardwood Handbook – An Illustrated Guide to Appalachian and Southern Lumber

Clarivoyance by C.W. Leadbeater

Antibiotic Properties of Jungle Soil

The English Tradition of Woodworking

Historic authenticity of the Spanish SAN FELIPE of 1690

The Intaglio Processes for Audubon’s Birds of America

Curing Diabetes With an Old Malaria Formula

Ought King Leopold to be Hanged?

Producing and Harvesting Tobacco Seed

Books of Use to the International Art Collector

Fox Hunting Season Opens 1935 – Heythrop Country at Lower Swell, near Stow-in-the-Wold, Gloucestershire

History of Regulation of Stock Exchange Specialists

The First Greek Book by John Williams White

Harry Houdini Investigates the Spirit World

Something about Caius College, Cambridge

Protecting Rare Books: How to Build a Silverfish Trap

Traditional JuJutsu Health, Strength and Combat Tricks

Fell and Moor Terrier Club circa later 1990s

Philly Dips – Some Philadelphia Cream Cheese Classics from the 1950s

Formulaes for Re-Creating the Old-Fashioned Drug Store Counter

Pussy Willow Wielded a Real Broad Sword

On the Growth of Plants in Closely Glazed Cases by Nathaniel Bagwell Ward

New From the Empire – Jan. 17th, 1851 Vol IX No. 165 Allen’s Indian Mail

Artistic Endeavour in the Absence of Country Gentlemen

Cleaning Oil Paint Brushes with Linseed Oil and Yardley of London Shea Butter Soap

A History of Fowling – Ravens and Jays

Westminster Confession of Faith – 1646

A Short Note on Manners for the Young Man Wishing to Make a Goodly Impression Whilst Avoiding Duels

A Day of Foxhunting in Maryland

The Damp Dark Plight of Rainy Day Books

Preserving Iron and Steel Surfaces with Paint

The Field of the Cloth of Gold

List of the 60 Franklin Library Signed Limited Editions

King William III on Horseback by Sir Godfrey Kneller

July 3rd, 2018

Reprint from The Royal Collection Trust website:

Kneller was born in Lubeck, studied with Rembrandt in Amsterdam and by 1676 was working in England as a fashionable portrait painter. He painted seven British monarchs (Charles II, James II, William III, Mary II, Anne, George I and George II), though his […]

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Herman de Vries at Venice Biennale 2015 – Going Caveman With Anti-Matter Fragmentation Art – A Tribute

June 29th, 2018

Dutch artist Herman de Vries – Photo taken by son Vince

The two videos below of Herman de Vries at work at the Venice Bienalle 2015 are quite inspiring.

So inspiring in fact that I moved into a cave for two weeks and wrote Shakespearean tragedy with charcoal. Filled with great […]

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The Intaglio Processes for Audubon’s Birds of America

May 9th, 2018

Notes on the intaglio processes of the most expensive book on birds available for sale in the world today.

The Audubon prints in “The Birds of America” were all made from copper plates utilizing four of the so called “intaglio” processes, engraving, etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Intaglio processes […]

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Audubon’s Art Method and Techniques

May 9th, 2018

Wild Turkeys by John James Audubon

Audubon started to develop a special technique for drawing birds in 1806 a Miill Grove, Pennsylvania. He perfected it during the long river trip from Cincinnati to New Orleans and in New Orleans, 1821.

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Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois and the Dulwich Picture Gallery

April 27th, 2018

Noel Desenfans and Sir Francis Bourgeois, circa 1805 by Paul Sandby, watercolour on paper

The Dulwich Picture Gallery was England’s first purpose-built art gallery and considered by some to be England’s first national gallery. Founded by the bequest of Sir Peter Francis Bourgois, dandy, the gallery was built to display his […]

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