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

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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.  $250.00

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