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By Printing

Take a glue-bat, full size for the color, and take the impression with the bat from subject, charge the copper plate with the oil or If the impression is not strong enough, shake the plate, which impression transfer on the glass . moist color; or take any engraving, or etching, or some dry color on it which will adhere to the stamp, or cast, and, having charged it with the oil or color, transfer it on the glass by means of prepared paper, vellum, leather, or any other substance that will answer; but the first is the best. Any engravings, etchings, stamps, casts, or devices may be charged with waters, oils, varnishes, or glutinous matters of any kind, reduced to a proper state, as is necessary in printing in general. Any or all of these may be used alone, or mixed with the colors. When used alone the color is to be applied in powder.