How to paint : a complete compendium of the art. Designed for the use of the tradesman, mechanic, merchant, and farmer, and to guide the professional painter ... / by F. B. Gardner ...
A practical trade manual on house and sign painting by Franklin B. Gardner, published in New York by S. R. Wells & Co. in 1880 for tradesmen, mechanics, merchants, farmers, and jobbing painters. Its 22 cuts are small wood-engraved ornaments and vignettes of scrolling foliage, cornucopias, urns and sprays, printed in fine line on cream stock and usable as headpieces, tailpieces and rule breaks.
