The painters' encyclopædia. Containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ... and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used
A trade reference for house, coach, sign and decorative painters, compiled by Franklin B. Gardner and published by M.T. Richardson in New York in 1887, arranged as alphabetical definitions with practical instruction. Wood-engraved cuts show flat brushes, pencils and tools in profile, heraldic shield tinctures rendered as ruled hatching, and diagrams of grained and marbled surfaces.
