The jewell house of art and nature : conteining diuers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experimentes in the art of husbandry, distillation, and moulding; faithfully and familiarly set downe, according to the authors owne experience
Hugh Platt's 1594 Jewell House of Art and Nature, printed in London by Peter Short, is a collection of practical experiments and inventions in husbandry, distillation and moulding, written for an English readership of gentlemen and craftsmen. Its woodcuts show furnaces with bellows, glass stills and apparatus, a screw press for casting moulds, and rows of flaming bricks, drawn with clear outlines and dense hatching that a designer could borrow for technical diagrams or engraved textures.
