Description: The Painter, Gilder, and Varnisher's Companion: 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, Thirteenth Edition, Revised, 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, Henry Carey Baird, Philadelphia, 1869, 356pp, 22pp, cloth, 5 x 8", 12mo Poor condition/as is. Wear and staining to front and rear boards. Front board is almost completely detached from binding. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Rear joint is cracked. Wear to spine, especially at headcap and tail, but still legible. Marginalia on front pastedown and flyleaf. Provenance on front pastedown (Mrs. A. Bowers). Stamp in ink for Library of John Martin Leahy on front pastedown, title page, and p. 7. Stamp for Lem. F. Abell, M.D.'s drug store in Kendallville, Indiana on endpaper. Handwritten chart of the Law of Chromatic Contrast on endpaper. First 4 pages of preface are missing. Marginalia throughout textblock. Toning, age-staining, ink-staining, and tea-staining throughout textblock. Illustrated. Please see photos and ask any questions prior to purchase. Henry Carey Baird (1825-1912) was an author, publisher, and proponent of the 19th century industrialization of the United States of America. His publishing house specialized in both scientific and practical books (for mechanics and tradesmen). His publishing house was the first in America to focus on technical and industrial titles. FORN-MSB-0324-TUB0012-JC310
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Binding: Cloth
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Publisher: Henry Carey Baird
Topic: Reference
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Reference
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1869
