Cyclopedia of painting : containing useful and valuable information on the following subjects : adulteration of paint, blistering of paint, brushes, calcimining, carriage painting, china painting, colors, color harmony, color mixing, color testing, exterior painting, gilding, graining, house painting, marbling, mildew, oils and driers, oil painting on glass, painting a bath tub, painting in distemper, paperhanger's tools, paperhanging, pigments, plain oil painting, primary colors, priming, scenic painting, sign painting, stains, staining, stencilling, turpentine, varnishes, varnishing, water color painting, when not to paint, practical points on painting, useful information
A trade manual on house, sign, carriage and decorative painting compiled by George D. Armstrong and published by F. J. Drake in Chicago in 1908 for working painters, paperhangers and grainers. The plates are small wood-engraved tool portraits cbrushes, rollers, graining combs, scrapers and paperhanging gear drawn in profile with hatched wood grain, stamped maker's marks and numbered ferrules, useful as isolated object silhouettes or hardware-catalogue motifs.
