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...

Norwich, (Conn.): Printed by Thomas Hubbard, 1795. First American edition. Leather. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Good. Item #003831

1st American edition. A Good copy. 16mo., xxii, 240 pp. Bound in contemporary full calf, with title on red morocco label on the spine. Tips, joints and board edges moderately rubbed. Previous owner's name and 1802 date on the front end paper. Text toned, with some light, scattered foxing throughout. A Good copy. **** A handy book, with methods, secrets, and hints, to clean, renew, make, the full range of hand-made crafts, trades, objects from engravings, to ivory, to making corks, cement, cleaning silver, etc. ***.

Price: $325.00