2 volumes. [xvi], 440; [iv], 464, [11], +[3] ad pp. 31 engraved plates, several folding. (8vo) 8¼x5¼, modern ½ red morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt. Seventh Edition.
Title continues: "Containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations, in Arts and Manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book binders, plasterers, artists, and to the worker in metals in general; an in plaster of Paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials." Also includes a long chapter on the manufacture of artificial fire-works.