Stalkers £6000 Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing ...
THE earliest book in English on the subject, John Stalker’s Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing... of 1688 has been described by H.D. Molesworth as “a work of art in its own right... as readily accepted for its literary content as for its technical information”.
It was, in fact, lotted with works by John Donne and Ben Jonson (an unsold collected works) in the …