A practical treatise on the manufacture of colors for painting
Subtitle: comprising the origin, definition, and classification of colors, the treatment of the raw materials, the best formulae and the newest processes for the preparation of every description of pigment, and the necessary apparatus and directions for its use, dryers, the testing, application, and qualities of paints, etc. etc
By: by Riffault, Vergnaud, and Toussaint ; revised and edited by M.F. Malepeyre ; translated from the French by A.A. Fesquet
Contributors: Vergnaud, A. D. (Armand Denis), 1791-1885; Toussaint, G. Alvar; Malepeyre, F. (François), 1794-1877; Fesquet, A. A.
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: 1874
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 659
Subjects: Paint; Paint materials; Paint mixing; Varnish and varnishing
Other titles: Manufacture of colors for painting
Work titles: Nouveau manuel complet du fabricant de couleurs et de vernis
Notes: "Illustrated by eighty engravings."

Includes index.

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English translation from the French language of "Nouveau manuel complet du fabricant de couleurs et de vernis."

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.