Jean-Henri Muntz 
Encaustic, or Count Caylus’s Method of Painting in the Manner of the Ancients [PDF ebook] 
To Which Is Added a Sure and Easy Method for Fixing of Crayons

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Concerning an ancient Meibod of Painting. Revived by Count caylus. Ount caylus, a member of the Academy of Infcrip tions, had undertaken to ex plain an obfcure pafiage in pliny the naturalifi. This author (whom I have not now before me) fays in fome place of his works, that the anci ents painted with burnt wax.