The painter, gilder, and varnisher's companion: containing rules and regulations in every thing relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, and glass staining ..
A practical trade manual of 1867 from Philadelphia publisher Henry Carey Baird, setting out recipes and working rules for house and industrial painting, gilding, varnishing and glass staining for craftsmen. The scanned plates here are the Library of Congress ownership endpapers: an eagle-and-shield seal ringed by capitals, tiled in rows across cream stock, usable as a repeat pattern, seal motif or textured ground.
