The ladies amusement; or, Whole art of japanning made easy. : Illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs, on two hundred copper plates; consisting of flowers, shells, figures, birds, insects, landscapes, shipping, beasts, vases, borders, &c. All adapted in the best manner for joining in groupes, or being placed in single objects

Date of publication taken from ESTC.

Oblong folio; horizontal chain lines.

"The art of japanning made easy": pages 3-6.

"A collection of curious insects": plates 83-95.

Plates 137-142, 154 and 158-162 with two etchings per sheet.

Woodcut initial, tailpiece. Plates are etchings.

Artists: Jean Pillement (39 plates); C. Fenn (19 plates); Roesel [i.e. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof?] (12 plates); AB [Antoine Benoist?] (6 plates) and [Anthony?] Walker (3 plates). Etchers: C.H. Hemmerich (27 plates); J. June (15 plates); R. Hancock (10 plates); P. Benazech (6 plates); [William?] Elliott (4 plates); James Roberts (2 plates); H. Stevens (1 plates) and Couse (1 plates). Many plates are unsigned.

Indexed in: ESTC,