The Painter, gilder, and varnisher's companion
Subtitle: containing rules and regulations in everything relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, glass-staining, graining, marbling, sign-writing, gilding on glass, and coach painting and varnishing : tests for the detection of adulterations in oils, colors, etc. and a statement of the diseases to which painters are peculiarly liable, with the simplest and best remedies
Edition: 16th ed., rev., with an appendix / containing colors and coloring-- theoretical and practical ; comprising descriptions of a great variety of additional pigments, their qualities and uses ; to which are added, dryers, and modes and operations of painting, etc. Together with Chevreul's principles of harmony and contrast of colors / [by Charles Martel, pseud.].
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: H.C. Baird
Published: 1871
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Copyright date: 1869
Subjects: Industrial Painting; Gilding; Varnish and varnishing
Other titles: The painter's and varnisher's pocket manual.
Notes: Second edition, London, 1826, has title: The painter's and varnisher's pocket manual.

Includes indexes.

Publisher's advertising: 24 p., 4th count.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

Includes bibliographical references.