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Painting and decorating

Pearce, Walter · 1913 · London : C. Griffin · 157 pictures

A trade manual on house painting and interior decoration by Walter Pearce, published in London by C. Griffin in 1913 for apprentices and working decorators. The plates are brush-and-pen ornament in flat black on cream: running scroll borders, symmetrical palmette headpieces, stencil repeats and diapered wall panels, drawn as patterns to be copied at scale and usable as rules, tailpieces and tiling units.

House painting · Interior decoration

Internet Archive · Public Domain Mark 1.0