[Rarebooks] FS: 1883 Painting & Painter's Materials

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Condit, Charles L. & Jacob Scheller. "PAINTING AND PAINTER'S MATERIALS: A
Book of Facts for Painters and Those Who Would Use or Deal in Paint
Materials"

New York; The Railroad Gazette: 1883.

A wide-ranging book, with chapters including- The Cracking of Varnish and
Paint; Purchase and Manufacture of Varnish; Use of Varnish; Testing the
Qualities of Common Pigments; Priming Wood; Oils; Drying of Oils and
Drying Oils; Old Oil and Fatty Oil; Causes of Decay in Paint and Varnish;
Manufacture and Use of White Lead; Rust; Painting Iron; Paints for Iron
and Out-Door Use; Brushes; Putty, Paste and Glue; Effects of Paint on
Health; Linseed Oil and Painter’s Difficulties with It; Eccentricities of
Oil and Varnish; The Carriage Varnish Shop; System in Car Shop;
Description and Test of Pigments; Chemical Relations of Pigments; and
Decoration by Color. The Appendix includes a short but interesting
bibliography. An interesting, uncommon book.

Hardcover. 5.25”x7.5”, xviii + ii + 465 pages, plus 32 pages of ornamental
alphabets and advertisements. Colored frontispiece of a house, and some
line illustrations in the text. Publisher’s brown cloth with gilt title
and decoration; covers scuffed and worn, hinges cracked and very weak,
front free endpaper missing; a little internal soil. [30917] $250.00


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