A very proper treatise, wherein is breefely set foorth the art of limming which teacheth the order in drawing and tracing of leters, vinets, flowers, armes, and imagerye, and the maner how to make sundry syses or groundes to lay siluer or gold vpon, and how siluer or golde shall be layed or limmed vpon the syse, and the waye to temper gold and siluer and other mettals and diuerse kindes of colours to write or to limme withall vppon velym, parchment or paper, and how to lay them vppon the worke which thou intendest to make, and howe to vernish it when thou hast done, with diuers other thynges verye meete and necessary to be knowne to all such gentlemen, and other persons as doe delight in limming, painting or in tricking of armes in their colours, and therefore a woorke very meete to be adioyning to the bookes of armes (By Thomas Purfoote, the assigne of Richard Tottill, 1588)
Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library. - Running title reads: The art of limming. - STC (2nd ed.), 24255