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The Colouring [Coloring], Bronzing and Patination of Metals: A manual for the fine metalworker and sculptor; Cast bronze, cast brass, copper and copper-plate, gilding metal, sheet yellow brass, silver and silver-plate

Hughes, Richard and Michael Rowe

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983. Hardcover. Brown cloth, color illus. dust jacket, 372 pp., color & BW illus. VG- (Page edges are tanning lightly, otherwise clean.). Item #151544
ISBN: 0442231709

"The techniques of metal coloring, bronzing and patination are assuming a new importance in contemporary fine metalwork. Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe have assembled and tested the recipes included in this book, which is the most comprehensive work on the subject currently available. It brings together hundreds of recipes and treatments previously scattered in a variety of old books and technical papers, and provides the artist-craftsman with a very wide range of colored finishes. Each of the recipes included has been tested and evaluated by the authors, and the practical procedures involved are clearly explained. In addition, they have devised techniques that considerably broaden the range of surface finishes that can be obtained." (dj) Note: While the title page uses the British spelling of "colouring" in the title, giving the nod to the authors' locations, the binding and dust jacket use the American version, "coloring." To search for this title successfully, you may have to try both spellings.

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