Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Artists' Oil Colors

2 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

To Prepare Cobalt Blue

Bleu de Thenard. Having reduced the ore to powder, calcine it in a reverberatory furnace, stirring it frequently.

Another (If the method employed)

If the method employed for Dutch pinks be followed by mixing the aluminous decoction of Brazil-wood with pure clay, such as Spanish white…

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